Page 2532 - Week 10 - Tuesday, 13 October 1992
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Open Space
MR WOOD: Madam Speaker, during question time today Ms Szuty asked me about the difference between 2.4 hectares of open space per 1,000 population and four hectares per 1,000 population in different documents. I am advised that four hectares per 1,000 people relates to town centres and 2.4 hectares per 1,000 relates to the urban areas, the populated areas beyond the town centres.
PERSONAL EXPLANATION
MR CORNWELL: Madam Speaker, I claim to have been misrepresented. I seek leave to make a personal explanation.
Leave granted.
MR CORNWELL: Madam Speaker, at the beginning of question time Mr Berry suggested that I had neglected my duties here in attending the Estimates Committee by going and listening to one of my Federal colleagues. This, in fact, is not correct. Last Thursday, 8 October, during the lunch hour, I attended the National Press Club to hear the next Industrial Relations Minister in the next government, that is, the Hewson Federal Government and the Industrial Relations Minister to be, Mr John Howard - somebody that Mr Berry could possibly listen to, too, to some advantage. I did attend that, as I say, in the lunch hour. I returned to the Assembly in time for the Urban Services estimates, which, your factional opponent Mr Connolly has admitted, I assiduously attended and was present for.
However, I did, Madam Speaker, miss a short five or ten minutes when Mr Berry had to come back to the Estimates Committee meeting on Health to correct mistakes he had made during the original estimates hearing when he said that the waiting list, I understand, for hospitals had fallen when, in fact, it had risen. I certainly missed that. Mrs Carnell was present. She is the health spokesman, and she was quite capable of looking after that matter. I wish to correct the suggestion that perhaps I had neglected my duties here.
SUBORDINATE LEGISLATION
Papers
MR BERRY (Deputy Chief Minister): Pursuant to section 6 of the Subordinate Laws Act 1989, I present subordinate legislation in accordance with the schedule of gazettal notices for a declaration, determinations, regulations and variations.
The schedule read as follows:
Credit Act - Declaration No. 148 of 1992 (S167, 25 September 1992).
Electricity and Water Act - Canberra Sewerage and Water Supply Regulations (Amendment) - No. 18 of 1992 (S173, 2 October 1992).
Housing Assistance Act -
Variation to Public Rental Housing Assistance Program - No. 152 of 1992 (S171, 1 October 1992).
Variation to Rent Relief Program - No. 151 of 1992 (S171, 1 October 1992).
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