Page 4248 - Week 14 - Tuesday, 29 November 1994
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PLANNING, DEVELOPMENT AND INFRASTRUCTURE -
STANDING COMMITTEE
Report on Draft Variation to the Territory Plan - Lyneham
MR BERRY (Manager of Government Business) (8.50): Mr Temporary Deputy Speaker, I present report No. 32 of the Standing Committee on Planning, Development and Infrastructure on the draft variation to the Territory Plan relating to Lyneham, section 67, block 1 - Yowani Golf Club - together with a copy of the relevant extracts from the minutes of proceedings. This report was provided to the Speaker for circulation on Monday, 28 November 1994, pursuant to the resolution of appointment. I move:
That the report be noted.
This report is a unanimous report. Remember those words. I refer members to the extracts from the minutes, which make it very clear that it is a unanimous report. Mr De Domenico, I hope that the word "unanimous" rings in your ears all night, especially when you get up to move your amendment, which I see you have circulated. To save the time of the Assembly, I will speak against the amendment as I speak in support of the committee's unanimous decision. I think it demonstrates that Mr De Domenico, although not disagreeing with the words of the committee in relation to our deliberations on this matter, got cold feet. Somebody may have leant on him. Who was it? Was it his developer mates?
Mr De Domenico: It is called commonsense.
MR BERRY: Oh! We do not have commonsense when we are in committee meetings; we have to discuss issues. You wait until you get outside and somebody gives you a ring and says, "Hey, matey; you are supposed to be supporting the developers, not looking after the people or the little creatures - no way". All of a sudden, Mr De Domenico gets a rush of blood to the head, and out come these sorts of outrageous moves to amend the committee's report. I do not mind if people are up front about it, if we have the debate within the committee and then we move on to other things. But I was surprised to get a call from Mr De Domenico today, asking me to reconvene the committee so that we could change the recommendation. I do not think that he would have been surprised when I said no. I am certain that none of the other members of the committee would have been interested in reconvening the committee to look at it with that in mind.
Mr Wood: Was he at the meetings when all of this was discussed?
MR BERRY: Yes, he was there.
Mr Connolly: And he supported it.
MR BERRY: Yes, and heard all the evidence. It became apparent to us throughout our examination of the Yowani Golf Club proposal that there had been incomplete consideration of traffic management matters in the area. Of course, Mr De Domenico does not care about that. He does not care about Mouat Street being clogged up, he does
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