Page 1427 - Week 06 - Tuesday, 1 May 1990
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Mrs Grassby: Well, we get them from you, Norm.
MR JENSEN: I think, Mr Speaker, we gave the others a chance to talk.
Mrs Grassby: We get them from you, Norm.
MR SPEAKER: Order, Mrs Grassby, please! I warn you.
MR JENSEN: One of the key issues in relation to this matter - and I heard Mr Wood say it before - is that the people of north Canberra are losing a facility. Mr Speaker, residents of Tuggeranong and Weston Creek do not have that sort of facility. They have to use the Mugga Lane tip, and the people of Belconnen have to use the Belconnen tip. We do not have the sort of facility that the people of north Canberra had.
One wonders why more of these sorts of facilities have not been provided to the people of Canberra. I suggest that it relates specifically to the cost associated with the running of them. I know Mr Stevenson has raised the fact that these facilities are coming into use in other cities, but it was quite clear at the time that the Government had to make a decision. I would like such a facility in Tuggeranong, as would other residents of Tuggeranong, and in Weston Creek. There are also aged people in Weston Creek and Tuggeranong. They do not have such a facility. It is all very well for those in the Opposition to say, "Build another one", but they are not in charge of the budget of the ACT at the moment. When they were in charge of the budget they did not provide the sorts of facilities that they are now seeking for the people of north Canberra. Why did we not find in the budget of the Follett Labor Government the sorts of facilities and requirements that clearly Mr Wood feels should be available to every person in Canberra?
Mr Berry: These dogs in the manger.
MR JENSEN: There will be plenty of times, Mr Berry, when we can talk about dogs in the manger. I note Mr Wood's comments about necessary trips. There is the proposal to establish recycling centres in the shopping centres in the same sort of way as recycling centres have been established at Woden, Weston Creek and Tuggeranong, where there are big bins for glass and metal.
Mr Wood: They're suddenly appearing in north Canberra.
MR JENSEN: That is the point. The people who live in north Canberra will have less distance to go, and that will reduce the amount of time that they spend in their motor cars going to these facilities. They will be able to go to the Hackett shops, buy their groceries and then drop off the cans and other items of recyclable waste. They will be able to make one trip, instead of two. That is really what we are talking about.
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