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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 11 Hansard (4 November) . . Page.. 3543 ..

MR HUMPHRIES (continuing):

You, Ms Horodny, and your colleague Ms Tucker have been critics of the processes. You criticised a whole series of developments and demanded that they be short-circuited before the due processes were to be followed. I would say to you that there is a much more important step you could take, and that is to propose amendments to the Land Act to deal with those issues that you think are not adequately covered at the moment, to put in place the mechanisms that you think ought to be there to deal with these applications, because you, the Greens, who are so concerned about process, should surely be most concerned in this area to indicate what the process is. I heard a report the other day by Ms Tucker, I think it was - it might have been Ms Horodny, actually - in response to the idea of putting aside some land at Latham for a park. It was one of you two, I understand. Actually, it was a Greens candidate, I beg your pardon; it was not either of you two. I apologise for that. It was a Greens candidate who said, "We believe in urban consolidation. We believe in it, but not here. It has to go somewhere else". Well, if not there, then where? If not this process, then what process?

Ms Tucker: We have told you what we think the process is. You have to develop local area plans in full consultation.

MR SPEAKER: Order!

Ms Tucker: Well, he asked.

MR SPEAKER: We do not want to know that. That was a rhetorical question. You will have the chance to speak later.

MR HUMPHRIES: It might have been rhetorical, but it got answered anyway, Mr Speaker. The Government has developed a local area planning process; it has engaged in consultation processes. None of the consultation processes we have ever engaged in are acceptable to the Greens.

Ms Horodny: No, not true.

MR HUMPHRIES: None whatsoever. You have not yet told us what process is acceptable. Give us the process that you want to use. When I asked you what process you wanted to use about mountain bikes you could not tell me. You dithered for five weeks, and then events overtook the whole process. If you are serious about wanting to deal with these things properly, tell people who are in the position of wanting to make applications or anybody in this place what they have to do to satisfy the ACT Greens. So far I am in the dark about that, and I suspect all the rest of us are, too.

MR SPEAKER: Do you have a supplementary question, Ms Horodny?

MS HORODNY: Just to correct the Minister. We have liked some of the processes.

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