Appropriations Bill speech on the National Capital Authority and Ethanol

I want to use tonight’s debate on the Appropriation Bill (No. 3) 2004-2005 and cognate bills to deal with two issues. First, I want to deal with a local issue, an issue important in my local community: the unnecessary, wasteful and frustrating duplication of planning processes here in the ACT. Second, I want to rebut some allegations that the Deputy Prime Minister has repeated— misleading assertions he has made concerning my views and my activities in the past concerning the use of ethanol in petrol.