Page 1132 - Week 03 - Wednesday, 30 March 2011
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MR RATTENBURY (Molonglo) (6.13): I will speak briefly to Mrs Dunne’s amendment. Whilst the Greens will not be supporting it, I do understand where it has come from. In listening to Mrs Dunne’s comments, I think it is a bit of a chicken and egg exercise. Do we go out and do the research and understand the problem and then seek to get all the parties on board to fix it or do we seek to get all the parties on board and then go and work out what we need to do? I think you could take either approach.
I think that the ideas that Mrs Dunne has suggested are quite worth while. I think that something we want to keep for later is how we are going to engage the different jurisdictions. It is obviously something I touched on very much in my comments around the challenges of the three jurisdictions essentially and how they all work together.
Just briefly on the commissioner for the environment, I think that the brief of the commissioner makes her well equipped to deal with this cross-jurisdictional thing in the sense that the commissioner’s style is perhaps a cooperative and collaborative one. We see that already the commissioner’s office does things like the regional state of the environment report. The commissioner works across the 17 jurisdictions in the Australian capital region to produce work. I think on that basis the commissioner is well equipped to deal with the different entities. My impression from the conversations I have had, particularly with the NCA, is that I think they would be quite open to this sort of approach and, hopefully, quite willing to share the information and the research that they already have, which should enhance the work of the commissioner.
Amendment negatived.
MR STANHOPE (Ginninderra—Chief Minister, Minister for Transport, Minister for Territory and Municipal Services, Minister for Business and Economic Development, Minister for Land and Property Services, Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs and Minister for the Arts and Heritage) (6.14), by leave: I move the amendments circulated in my name:
(1) Omit paragraph (1)(d), substitute:
“(d) the number of events being cancelled due to closure of the lake resulting from poor water quality;”.
(2) Omit paragraph (1)(f), substitute:
“(f) the complexity of the multiple factors affecting water quality in the lake;”.
(3) Omit paragraph (2)(a), substitute:
(a) direct the ACT Commissioner for Sustainability and the Environment to investigate the state of the watercourses and catchment for Lake Burley Griffin, including:
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