![]() Can I ask you, the most recent high profile case of the New South Wales ICAC, Gladys Berejiklian, should that have been a public hearing in your view?ĪTTORNEY-GENERAL: Well, it’s a matter for the Commissioner and what we saw there is there had been literally dozens of private hearings conducted before they got to what seemed to be the end of the process, a spectacular public hearing.ĪTTORNEY-GENERAL: The Commissioner decided that it was. SPEERS: A lot of people have debated this week what is exceptional circumstances, what should and shouldn’t be public or private. I don’t think that that is going to necessarily provide an opportunity for litigation.ĪTTORNEY-GENERAL: Some legal experts think this is exactly right and others have expressed the contrary view and that’s what’s going to be talked about in the committee process that we’re about to have. Yes, there’s an indication as to the kinds of things that the Commissioner has to look at. I’m not so sure that it’s an open discretion. SPEERS: This gives them something to go to court with, having exceptional circumstances.ĪTTORNEY-GENERAL: I’m not about to give legal advice here on national TV. That they can’t go off and tie up the Commission in litigation. There’s a lot in this bill that’s designed to make sure that people who are trying to escape from an investigation won’t be able to. People called before the Commission will go to the courts and say look, it says in the law exceptional circumstances, I want a private hearing thank you very much.ĪTTORNEY-GENERAL: I’ve been very conscious in preparing this bill of the experience of a number of the state and territory commissions which have got tied up in court processes designed to interfere with getting to the corruption that’s the object that this one is talking about. SPEERS: There are some who are concerned, including retired judges who’ve been campaigning on this issue, that having that exceptional circumstances in the law means that this will be subject to legal challenge. I’m looking forward, as you just said on the couch, I’m looking forward to the hearings that are going to be held and the submissions we’re going to receive in this Parliamentary committee process which is about to start next week. We think we’ve got the balance right and I’ve been very heartened by the overwhelming support we’ve actually got, it seems, across the Parliament for the model we’ve put forward. When our sewer systems are overflowing, when our parks are bare, when our public transportation is failing … that’s not NIMBYism, that’s just a community crying out after proper and sustainable planning.ATTORNEY-GENERAL: We think it’s good to give an indication. “So I don’t think you can claim that the people of Willoughby are NIMBYs. ![]() “Willoughby has had a lot of development and we’ve tolerated a lot of development,” she said. ![]() Larissa Penn, the independent candidate who nearly wrested Gladys Berejiklian’s former seat of Willoughby from the Liberals in the February by-election, said she becomes more determined to run again every time the government doesn’t listen to the community. ![]() In each part of the city there are particular lightning rods for development anxiety: in the north, the planned Western Harbor Tunnel and Beaches Link have exacerbated concerns about congestion, overcrowding and a lack of open space from higher density. Independent Member for Sydney Alex Greenwich said NIMBYs play a vital role in opposing and reshaping unreasonable development proposals. ![]()
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