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Sir Geoffrey and I shared some major interests such as the Multiple Sclerosis Society, which Ms Follett spoke about, and Rotary. Sir Geoffrey was always pleased to attend the various Rotary clubs and, as a guest speaker, relate his experiences to us. About two years ago, when I was first envisaging visiting South Africa, Sir Geoffrey came to me to make sure that I stuck to my guns and did go. At that stage, his son was working in the Australian Embassy in South Africa. He wanted me to go over there and see and speak to as many people as possible, to make sure that what has, thankfully, now happened in South Africa did happen.
I support the motion of condolence. I pay my respects to Lady Yeend and the family and friends of Sir Geoffrey. He will be sadly missed. The bottom line is that Sir Geoffrey was a bloody good bloke and a magnificent Australian. I, personally, will miss him, as I am sure all Canberrans will.
Question resolved in the affirmative, members standing in their places.
NOISE CONTROL (AMENDMENT) BILL 1994
MR STEFANIAK (10.42): Madam Speaker, I present the Noise Control (Amendment) Bill 1994.
Title read by Clerk.
MR STEFANIAK: I move:
That this Bill be agreed to in principle.
I foreshadow that I will be moving to discharge order of the day No. 18, private members business. That relates to a similar Bill introduced by my colleague Mr Westende.
Mr Moore: Why was that inadequate?
MR STEFANIAK: This is as a result of advice received after that Bill was introduced. There were a couple of technical and legal difficulties with that Bill; hence the need for a new Bill. This Bill has been worked on over a period of several months, in consultation with a number of groups and with expert opinion from both legal people and Challis and Associates, consulting acoustical and vibration engineers, who are experts in the field and whom, I understand, the ACT Government has used on a number of occasions in relation to similar matters.
Madam Speaker, there is a need for a change to the situation in the ACT. I suggest to members that the ACT is out of kilter with the rest of Australia. The Australian situation is basically that the common measurement used for motor sport is 95 decibels at 30 metres from the track. This is the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport standard. It is used Australia-wide and is certainly the standard used at New South Wales tracks.
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