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NATURE CONSERVATION (AMENDMENT) BILL 1994
MS FOLLETT (Chief Minister and Treasurer) (10.42): On behalf of Mr Wood, I present the Nature Conservation (Amendment) Bill 1994.
Title read by Clerk.
MS FOLLETT: I move:
That this Bill be agreed to in principle.
I ask for leave to incorporate Mr Wood's speech in Hansard.
Leave granted.
Speech incorporated at Appendix 16.
MS FOLLETT: I present an explanatory memorandum to the Bill.
Debate (on motion by Mr Westende) adjourned.
BASIC WATER ALLOWANCE
Motion for Disallowance
MR MOORE (10.42): I move:
That Determination No. 29 of 1994, which sets the basic water allowance, be disallowed.
In moving for the disallowance of this particular determination, I think it is important that members understand that the concern I have is not just with this particular determination but also with the determination that has been gazetted by the ACTEW board. But it is within our power to move only for the disallowance of the fundamental determination on which the rest hinges, and that is the determination made by Mr Lamont that changes our 350-kilolitre allowance to one kilolitre. If members see their way clear to disallow that determination, then ACTEW will have to go back to their drawing board and prepare a sensible system. They have not prepared a sensible system. They have come up with a half-baked idea that simply does not serve our community well at all. It may indeed serve ACTEW well, but it does not help our community.
When we have heard public argument on this issue, we have certainly heard the Minister and others argue that this system that ACTEW has come up with has the support of the Conservation Council and we have heard that it has the support of ACTCOSS. Of course, their support is only in-principle support for a user pays system. Let me make it very clear from the beginning, Madam Speaker, that I do not oppose a sensible user pays system, one that has been well thought out and that works. In fact, my personal view is that water ought to be charged for in the same way as electricity; that there ought
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