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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 12 Hansard (11 November) . . Page.. 3918 ..
MRS CARNELL (continuing):
We had to write that off and start all over again. We needed people who understood how to run something, unlike those opposite. Mr Knop has done a great job as chairman of that particular entity, as have other members of the board. Mr Speaker, he has also - - -
Mr Corbell: She does not want to answer the question.
MR SPEAKER: I warn you, Mr Corbell.
MRS CARNELL: Mr Knop is also a director and chair of a number of other entities. He is a director of Capital Finance Australia Ltd, chairman of the Financial Institutions Commission of New South Wales, a director of the Canberra Tourism and Events Corporation, a director of Wilhelmsen Lines Australia Pty Ltd, chairman of the Asia Pacific Practice Board of Ray and Berndtson and deputy chairman of the Canberra Car Rally. He is a person with exceptional talents in the business area.
Those talents have obviously been recognised by the New South Wales Labor Government. Other assignments that Mr Knop has recently undertaken include such things as searching for the chief executive of the New South Wales Government Waterways Authority, the head of the Office of the Status of Women for the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, the director-general of the New South Wales Department of Transport, and the manager of the Transport Management Centre, New South Wales Roads and Traffic Authority. That indicates to me that the New South Wales Labor Government believe that Mr Knop is a very capable person in his own right. I agree with the New South Wales Labor Government. I have absolutely no doubt about Mr Knop's credibility, about his honesty or about the fact that he goes about his job in an appropriate manner.
MS McRAE: I ask a supplementary question. Can I take it from your complete refusal to answer my question that Mr Knop has used the resources of the Hotel School in the conduct of his private business?
MR SPEAKER: I could not hear the supplementary question because of the interjections from the Opposition, who appeared to be helping; but if you did hear, Chief Minister, answer, if you can.
MRS CARNELL: Ms McRae reasked her first question. I have said that I have absolutely no reason to doubt Mr Knop's veracity, his honesty or his capacity to do his job appropriately.
MS TUCKER: My question is to the Chief Minister and relates to the plan to redevelop the Griffin Centre and the Bunda Street car park and also to the plans to redevelop the ROCKS area on the other side of Civic. Chief Minister, I understand that an officer of your department has been given the task of finding new accommodation for the Ethnic Communities Council and the Migrant Resource Centre, which are currently located in the Griffin Centre and have been negotiating with community groups in the
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