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of the community would be. Every one of us is likely to end up a victim in a smashed vehicle somewhere at some time, and we would all feel much happier and much more secure if we heard Mr Connolly make a positive statement like that.

Mr Berry: Remind me never to get into a car with you.

MR KAINE: I do not get into accidents, except through somebody else's fault. Every day in the week people get into accidents because of somebody else's action and not their own. None of us is immune from that. I repeat: I would feel much more secure, and I am sure most people in the community would feel much more secure, if they knew that something positive was being done to remove the possibility of conflict, to remove the possibility of confusion, and to remove any doubt about where responsibility lies, and who should do what and when. If Mr Connolly can do that, I will commend him again, as I have already.

MADAM SPEAKER: The discussion has now concluded.

SCRUTINY OF BILLS AND SUBORDINATE LEGISLATION -
STANDING COMMITTEE
Report and Statement

MRS GRASSBY: Madam Speaker, I present report No. 14 of 1992 of the Standing Committee on the Scrutiny of Bills and Subordinate Legislation. I seek leave to make a brief statement on the report.

Leave granted.

MRS GRASSBY: Report No. 14 contains the committee's comments on two Bills, 10 pieces of subordinate legislation and five government responses. I commend the report to the Assembly.

PLANNING, DEVELOPMENT AND INFRASTRUCTURE -
STANDING COMMITTEE
Report on Draft Variations to the Territory Plan

MR LAMONT (4.02): I present report No. 6 of 1992 of the Standing Committee on Planning, Development and Infrastructure on the following draft variations to the Territory Plan: Yarralumla, section 66, blocks 3, 17 and 18; Narrabundah, section 100, part of block 13; Fyshwick, section 39, block 7; Mitchell, section 47, part of block 1, and section 44, part of block 2; Gungahlin, part of block 9; O'Malley, section 34, block 9; Conder, section 129, blocks 14, 17 and 18, and section 275, block 20, together with the minutes of proceedings. This report was provided to the Speaker for circulation on Tuesday, 5 October 1992, pursuant to the resolution of appointment. I move:

That the report be noted.

Madam Speaker, in tabling this report of the Planning, Development and Infrastructure Committee I think it is important that I draw the attention of the Assembly to a number of issues concerning these variations. I will deal first with Yarralumla. Yarralumla, section 66, blocks 13, 17 and 18, is an area previously


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