Page 4022 - Week 13 - Wednesday, 30 October 2013
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A Trust would be one way to do this and we welcome this additional push by the Liberals …
What is abundantly clear here is that the Canberra Business Council welcomes the concept of a trust being established.
If it is not to be a trust then what is it to be? And there is opportunity here for the government to say what it would be. Mr Rattenbury mentioned a project team. There are other structures that could be established that might be preferable to the government. Let us have a debate about that. If you have a different concept in terms of what entity should run this, amend Mr Smyth’s motion to that effect.
Mr Barr: We have.
MR HANSON: No, that is not true. You have not amended the motion to that effect at all. At this stage, what we have got—
Mr Barr: I am not announcing a model today, but there will be a model. There will need to be. But it will be different from a trust.
MR HANSON: What is that model?
Mr Barr: I don’t know yet. I will announce that once we have done the work.
MR HANSON: You do not know yet. Anyway, what I think we are seeing, and what the point is, is that we have a minister who is trying to essentially step away from the concept that is—
Mr Barr: I am just not accepting your bad idea, that is all.
MR ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Mr Doszpot): Mr Barr, through the chair please.
MR HANSON: It is not such a bad idea in Melbourne. It is not a bad idea in a lot of other jurisdictions. What we are seeing is: if it is not Andrew Barr’s way then it is the highway. It is a very reasonable proposition, it is the consistent model in other jurisdictions and it works effectively, and what we are seeing is Mr Barr basically looking for an option to just water down Mr Smyth’s motion. And that is exactly what he has done, which is disappointing.
Let us also look at what the motion says in terms of some dates. It does say that we will establish that trust by a specific date, 30 June 2014. But it also calls on the investment-ready plan, shovel-ready plan, whatever you want to call it, to be completed by 30 June 2015. Is there going to be an alternative date proposed by—
Mr Barr interjecting—
MR ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Mr Hanson, could I ask you to resume your seat for a second. Stop the clock. Mr Barr, please stop interjecting. You were listened to in relative quiet. Mr Hanson.
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