Page 435 - Week 02 - Wednesday, 21 February 1990
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It is interesting that you have not commented on some of the old areas. At a meeting of the Braddon Residents Association the other night a great deal of concern was expressed about what is sometimes called Northbourne oval or referred to as rugby league park.
Mr Jensen: They are doing a flip-flop, are they, Michael?
MR MOORE: We will have to look very carefully at whether the area should be developed in residential terms. I understand that nobody has considered as reasonable an original proposal which included office space and so forth. The notion of a residential area development will have to be considered very carefully, compared with whether the area should be retained as a sporting facility or returned to its status of just over 10 years ago when the community at large had access to it. Mr Jensen interjected that I am doing a flip-flop. No, I have not done a flip-flop.
Mr Jensen: I did not say "you".
MR MOORE: Mr Jensen interjects to say that he did not say it about me. The Braddon Residents Association and I have always kept open minds as to the conclusion. The only thing, as far as I am aware, that the Braddon Residents Association, the City Residents Coalition or I have ever stated about it was that none of us was prepared to see it go to development for office accommodation. Mr Jensen would agree that he also held that view.
Mr Jensen: I still do.
MR MOORE: I have no doubt that you still do. It is a very serious matter for us to consider that site and to how it can be of most value as a sporting facility, particularly to a community in inner Canberra which appears to have fewer recreation areas. Many of those suburbs are going through their renaissance and now have young children again. That is illustrated by the fact that students are being turned away from schools such as the Ainslie Primary School which, only four or five years ago, was under threat of closure because it did not have the numbers. By the way, they are not commuter students either. They are living within the standard intake area.
I draw attention to point 7 in the policy, about school sport. With Mr Kaine's suggestion of major cuts to education, I wonder whether the trick might be to encourage students into sport so that we can have 150 students on the oval with one teacher, and in this way we can do away with a few teachers. There are possibilities in that. Seriously, school sport is a most important and critical part of the sporting basis of any particular area.
I really want to draw attention to page 4, policy 11, sponsorship in sport. I wholeheartedly support the notion of limiting tobacco company sponsorship of sport. But I also draw attention to the fact that you have not included
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