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ADJOURNMENT
MADAM SPEAKER: Order! It being past 4.30 pm, I propose the question:
That the Assembly do now adjourn.
Mr Lamont: I require the question to be put forthwith without debate.
Question resolved in the negative.
ENVIRONMENTAL INITIATIVES - GOVERNMENT'S PROGRESS
ON IMPLEMENTATION
Ministerial Statement
[COGNATE PAPERS:
ENVIRONMENT STRATEGY - DRAFT FOR PUBLIC COMMENT - PAPER
ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION LEGISLATION - PAPERS]
Debate resumed from 12 October 1993, on motion by Mr Wood:
That the Assembly takes note of the paper.
MADAM SPEAKER: Is it the wish of the Assembly to debate this order of the day concurrently with order of the day No. 4, Environment Strategy - Draft for Public Comment - Paper, and order of the day No. 5, Environment Protection Legislation - Papers? There being no objection, that course will be followed. I remind members that, in debating order of the day No. 3, they may also address orders of the day Nos 4 and 5.
MS SZUTY (4.33): Madam Speaker, I would like to talk primarily to the environmental initiatives matter, the Government's progress on implementation, and the ministerial statement that the Minister for the Environment, Land and Planning delivered in this chamber some time ago. Madam Speaker, the quality of Canberra's environment is a significant issue for Canberrans. The city has been planned since its inception, a factor that has delivered us a clean and verdant national capital; but it is important that we now use the knowledge of the late twentieth century rather than the landscape values of the early twentieth century to protect and rehabilitate our environment. It is in this spirit that I welcome the Government's statement on environmental initiatives with reference to the 2020 vision. However, I would hope that the timeframe for implementing the changes envisaged will be somewhat shorter than 27 years.
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