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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 12 Hansard (11 November) . . Page.. 3912 ..

Mrs Carnell: It sounds like a good idea. It might employ someone.

MR HUMPHRIES: That is right. It is not there now because there was an Interim Heritage Places Register citation placed on the place. You people got rolled. That is why it is not there now. Who can forget North Watson? In March 1994 North Watson land was varied from entertainment, accommodation and leisure to add residential as a use. In May 1994 the land of the Bocce Club at Kaleen changed from restricted access recreation to residential - you guessed it. In February 1994 work began to initiate a plan variation to change the land use of areas at North Duffy and Holder from community use to residential use. That proposal was later withdrawn because of public opposition. Early in 1995 Mr Wood initiated a plan variation to change the use of the Yowani Golf Club site at Lyneham from restricted access recreation to residential B1, three-storey residential. The man who invented the pink bits, the man who was all in favour of loading these things into the Territory Plan and converting hundreds of acres of land from recreational and green space into residential, has the nerve to come forward and tell the Government that it should not even consider converting about five hectares on the shores of Lake Tuggeranong. You have to say, Mr Speaker, that this really is the pot calling the kettle black.

MR CORBELL: Mr Speaker, my question is to the Chief Minister. I refer the Chief Minister to an answer given to the Estimates Committee in attempting to justify the $35,000 worth of verbal advice from Mr Knop's firm, Profile Paul Ray Berndtson, to the Government well after the advice was received. Will the Chief Minister deny that part or all of the consultancy fee paid to Mr Knop was for his successful attempt to find a position which would attract the former Deputy Chief Minister to leave the Assembly or that the consultancy fee for verbal advice was paid for a period during which Mr Knop was arranging an offer for the former Deputy Chief Minister?

MRS CARNELL: I can absolutely totally deny that any of the $35,000 was paid for a consultancy fee for Mr De Domenico to get a job with anybody, whether it was Ian Knop or anybody else. I think one of the things that those opposite might have forgotten is that the way head-hunters or executive search agents work is that the company who wants the staff member pays. That is actually how it works. Maybe they did not know, Mr Speaker.

MS HORODNY: Mr Speaker, my question is to Mr Stefaniak as Minister for Education. Mr Stefaniak, what consideration has been given to ensuring that trees in schoolgrounds are going to be maintained adequately under the school-based management system? Our concern is that expenditure on tree maintenance will have a low priority and that big old trees particularly, rather than being pruned for safety, will simply be chopped down.

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