Page 264 - Week 01 - Thursday, 18 February 1993
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Unfortunately, many scenarios can be imagined where one party, for a particular reason, would deliberately seek to disenfranchise the other - perhaps a landlord-tenant relationship, a family home situation with a granny flat adjoining, or two feuding parties being the people involved. The amendments seek to rectify that situation by insisting that, when the number of members of the corporation is two, a quorum for a general meeting is two members, so that decisions will be made by the parties involved.
Amendments agreed to.
Bill, as a whole, as amended, agreed to.
Bill, as amended, agreed to.
ADJOURNMENT
Motion (by Mr Berry) proposed:
That the Assembly do now adjourn.
Tuggeranong
MR DE DOMENICO (4.55): Madam Speaker, on flipping through old copies of the Chronicle newspaper I noticed that on Sunday Tuggeranong will celebrate its twentieth birthday. I would like to take this opportunity to mark the occasion by telling a very brief story of Tuggeranong's development.
Mr Lamont: It is not only Bernard Collaery's old Bills on tax; he has to read old Chronicles.
MR DE DOMENICO: Be that as it may, Madam Speaker, I will disregard those remarks. There are three members of this Assembly who live in the Tuggeranong Valley - Mr Kaine, Ms Ellis, who is not here unfortunately, although I am sure that she would have beaten me to the gun and done this had she been here, and me. The NCDC first let the contract for land servicing at Kambah in January 1973. On 21 February, on a rainy day, I am told, Canberra's two ministerial masters at the time, Tom Uren and Kep Enderby - I am sure that they are two names people remember; I remember working very well with Minister Uren on workers compensation legislation - stood together under umbrellas and unveiled a plaque to mark the start of operations.
Perhaps it is timely today to mention the plaque because we have been debating crime. I was just saying to Mr Wood before that this plaque many years later was vandalised, and it was vandalised most convincingly with the use of sticks of gelignite. The buckled plaque was retrieved by Parks and Gardens and taken to a depot somewhere, but in subsequent years has unfortunately been lost, mislaid or maybe even chucked out. It seems fitting, however, that the plaque should be replaced, and on the eve of the twentieth birthday of Tuggeranong I ask the Minister for the Environment, Land and Planning, Mr Wood, whether he would consider replacing the original plaque and adding another plaque to mark the completion of the Tuggeranong Valley 20 years later.
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