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MR PRATT: According to Telstra this is the best place for them to put that tower.
Mr Corbell: That is their view.
MR PRATT: They have said they are prepared to walk around and look at an alternative site, but Telstra have advised me that they have no confidence that ACTPLA would be happy with any other decision. That is interesting, isn’t it, minister?
Mr Corbell: You believe Telstra but not—
MR PRATT: Well, minister, the only person who turned up to a community meeting was Telstra, the only body—
Mr Corbell: They are the proponent.
MR PRATT: Your agency ACTPLA was invited.
Mr Corbell: They are the proponent.
MR PRATT: If ACTPLA had turned up—
MR SPEAKER: Order! Mr Pratt, direct your comments through me. Mr Corbell, cease interjecting.
MR PRATT: Thank you, Mr Speaker. ACTPLA could have turned up at that meeting on the night and said to the residents, “We have not yet reached the decision point. This is what Telstra might be saying, but what we are telling you residents is that we are yet to go through a phase of consultation.” I can tell you, Mr Speaker—and you might like to inform the minister—that the residents who attended that meeting clearly were of the view that the decision is a fait accompli. That is the point, Mr Speaker. The residents feel that, as with the school closures program, they have been steamrolled; where they should be consulted, they are not.
MR SPEAKER: The member’s time has expired. The discussion is concluded.
Appropriation Bill 2006-2007
[Cognate papers:
Estimates 2006-2007—Select Committee report
Estimates 2006-2007—Select Committee report—government response]
Detail stage
Proposed expenditure—Part 1.4—Chief Minister’s Department, $36,418,000 (net cost of outputs), $35,653,000 (capital injection), totalling $72,071,000.
Debate resumed.
MR MULCAHY (Molonglo) (4.55): I will take up where I finished off before lunch. I was commenting on the inappropriateness of the government attempting to get into
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