Page 3838 - Week 13 - Thursday, 18 October 1990
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Mr Moore: It could have been next to the Ainslie Transfer Station.
MR JENSEN: Mr Moore has obviously been out of the house and has not been listening to what I have had to say about the Ainslie Transfer Station.
Mrs Grassby: No, he has not. He has been in the other room with me, listening, all the time.
MR JENSEN: The tenders for this composting facility and the garden waste drop off area have been evaluated, and an announcement on this is expected by the end of the month. We will soon have on the west Belconnen landfill site a composting facility to which people can easily deliver their garden waste.
Mrs Grassby: Michael Moore was with me in the other room.
Mr Humphries: Listening to you or to him?
Mrs Grassby: Listening to both of us. Michael Moore is very clever; that is why he is on this side of the house and not on that side. He is too smart to sit with you lot.
MR JENSEN: I am quite happy to sit down, Mr Temporary Deputy Speaker, until Mrs Grassby has finished her rantings. Now that she has finished I will continue.
This should significantly extend the life of the Belconnen landfill site, another important aspect in the management of waste within the ACT. As part of the composting campaign the existing composting facility at the Mugga Lane landfill site - will be better publicised. These measures will help greatly in waste minimisation. Of course, the cost of operating our sites will, as I have already indicated, be removed.
Mrs Grassby: Sell it off to your developer friends; that is it.
MR JENSEN: For example, Mr Temporary Deputy Speaker - - -
Mr Collaery: Who is speaking?
MR TEMPORARY DEPUTY SPEAKER (Mr Wood): Order! Carry on, Mr Jensen.
MR JENSEN: Thank you, Mr Temporary Deputy Speaker. I appreciate your protection. If one visits the Belconnen site, as I did recently with the director of the Conservation Council of the South-East Region and Canberra, one will notice that there is a major difference in the type of material that is deposited at the tip face in relation to the amount of garden waste when compared with what you find at the Mugga Lane tip, which I occasionally visit these days - much more occasionally than I did in the past, I might add.
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