Page 381 - Week 02 - Tuesday, 22 March 2022
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Cross-border collaboration is critical for this project, Madam Speaker, with this key transport hub providing a critical economic growth connection for the diverse economies of the broader Canberra region.
The private sector has a key role to play in achieving the overall ambition—for example, by creating the physical space that encourages collaboration, lifestyle and innovation. We have the physical space, we have the policies and planning processes that can work together to encourage interesting and exciting precincts where Canberrans can live and work in new ways.
A recent successful case of organic precinct growth is the transformation of Braddon from a lot of vacant lots and second-hand car yards to the vibrant residential, cultural and shopping hub we experience now. A more designed, and perhaps even more startling transformation of space, is the New Acton precinct, that turned an area largely abandoned by Canberrans into another exciting destination venue for work, for living, for entertainment and for dining.
The next proposed precinct location undergoing planning and approvals processes is the Dairy Road project. This time the location is between the industrial suburb of Fyshwick and the Jerrabomberra Wetlands. The developers, the Molonglo Group, will be working with the planning authority to deliver a project based on the principle that indoor and outdoor life will be valued equally. A new wetland will be established on site, native planting will reflect the surrounding landscape and the architecture will be a framework for ecology. Energy harvesting and efficient consumption will make it easier for residents to reduce their impact on the environment.
Dairy Road is also, importantly, proposed to provide opportunities for local enterprises to incubate new ideas, to fabricate new products, to establish partnerships and to make direct connections with customers—all part of an economy that is cleaner, fairer and more responsible.
In conclusion, our city offers a rare combination of opportunity and liveability, with community wellbeing and inclusion at its heart. Our mission now is to work with willing partners across the community to ensure that Canberra is prepared for these new challenges and is able to grasp the opportunities that will come from the next phase of our city’s economic development.
We are a city of knowledge, Madam Speaker, a city of ambitious people with big ideas, and together, off this very strong foundation of sustainable, inclusive values, we can keep switching Canberra on and we can keep growing our economy.
I present the following paper:
CBR Switched On: ACT’s Economic Development Priorities 2022-2025—Ministerial statement, 22 March 2022.
I move:
That the Assembly take note of the paper.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
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