Page 1084 - Week 04 - Wednesday, 20 March 1991
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Planning Legislation
MR CONNOLLY: My question is also directed to the Chief Minister. I remind the Chief Minister that it is now two weeks past his self-imposed deadline of two weeks for the release of the package of planning legislation which I noticed he was waving around this morning. Can the Chief Minister inform the Assembly when the legislation will be available to the Canberra community?
MR KAINE: Mr Speaker, Mr Connolly, as is typical of the crew opposite, is constantly misquoting. I did not say that the legislation in consolidated form would be released in two weeks. I said that the legislative draftsmen had indicated that they could produce a consolidation in two weeks. They have done so. In fact, I showed it to you this morning, Mr Connolly. It is still a draft document. It is not yet in final form. It is a document that has been put together by the legislative draftsmen in response to my request that it be consolidated into a single document. I have not fully read and analysed it in its final draft form yet. When I have done so, and when the Government is satisfied that it fully represents the Government's view, it will be made available to the public.
Of course, my first action will be to do what I have done with every other document that is associated with the development of this legislation: I will make it available to the chairmen of the two Assembly committees, along with all of the other documentation that they have already received, so that they are fully informed on where the Government is heading with this legislation. If they, in their wisdom, think that they should make some report to this Assembly on the matter I am sure they will do that. I believe that I gave an undertaking that I would keep the committees fully informed on the Government's actions in this matter. I will do so. But that does not mean that I will give to Mr Connolly, Ms Follett, or anybody else in this house a draft document that is not yet ready and which does not yet reflect - - -
Mr Berry: You said that you had my copy there this morning to show to me.
MR KAINE: I did, and it is a draft document - - -
Mr Berry: Where is my copy?
MR KAINE: You will get your copy, Mr Berry, when it is ready and when I am prepared to give it to you - not before. You do not push the Government's program; I do. You will get the document when, in my opinion, it is in an appropriate form for you to have it, and not one day before.
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