Page 1498 - Week 06 - Wednesday, 2 May 1990
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MRS GRASSBY (11.22): Mr Speaker, I agree with Mr Moore in just about all he said, except for one thing. I disagree with blaming the bureaucracy for the decision. Mr Duby is the Minister and the buck stops with him. Of course he will be given suggestions by his department. That is what his department is there for. When money has to be saved, his officers will come up with suggestions. But it is up to Mr Duby, who is the Minister, to make these decisions. He is the one who gets paid to make them. He was put there to do this.
Of course we all know that Mr Duby does not have any policies because he comes from a party that does not have policies. The No Self Government team did not have any policies on anything. I do not blame the Liberals for agreeing to this; I would expect them to come up with policies like this. This is typical of their policies and therefore I do not attack them for it. But I attack the Residents Rally members, who came into this house claiming that they would look after the people in this area. This is where their votes are, and there is only one person in this house - a former Residents Rally member, who is now an independent - who is really carrying out that policy. Mr Moore is carrying out the policy of putting forward what the people want. But the Residents Rally does not give a damn about this matter.
I might say that I feel sorry for Dr Kinloch because he has tried to say that this should not happen. The report of the inquiry into commercial and domestic waste management said that the Ainslie Transfer Station should be upgraded and that recycling should be introduced into the area. This is what Dr Kinloch agreed to. I am now on that committee and, having read the report, I would be in favour of Labor Party policy supporting that. When I went onto that committee I asked Mr Wood all that had gone on before. He explained to me that these things had come up. But, as he said, they had voted against them and Dr Kinloch had supported them, as did Mr Moore. As a member of the Labor Party, I would support upgrading the transfer station and making it a far better one, not closing it down.
The Government tells us that it will build another station at Mitchell. My argument is that you do not close something down until you have something else to replace it. This is pie in the sky. Are we ever going to see this place in Mitchell? In the meantime we will have to put up with rubbish being dumped at shopping centres. I find this incredible. If I were a business person in a shopping centre, I would be very annoyed about this. Again there was no consultation; nobody was asked. The Government just decided that this was what it would do.
In a very short time we have had more than 4,000 signatures on petitions. In less than a week 4,000 people who live in the area have complained about this decision. Do the Residents Rally members care? They say they stand for the
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