Page 5074 - Week 17 - Wednesday, 12 December 1990
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the National Exhibition Centre Trust and Street Machine Services Pty Ltd have all been canvassing proposals to reduce inconvenience to residents, to ban camping and parking, and all those other issues raised by the Leader of the Opposition.
Mr Speaker, I believe that we are doing a lot about this matter. The real question, and I signal it to the house, is whether we are not doing too much and whether we need to make sure that we have a proper economic tourist analysis of this event to see whether it meets the expectations of the members of the community at large.
MR MOORE (12.17): Mr Speaker, it seems to me that a relatively bipartisan approach on this issue has been reached. I think that is a very positive thing as it is an important issue that the Leader of the Opposition has raised and brought into private members' business at the appropriate time. Like all of us, I have had a number of approaches about the inconvenience caused by street machines.
Having had some background in the area myself in my younger days, having worked with vehicles and being aware of some of the reasons why people enjoy working on cars and making them perform in a manner that is different from their original design, I certainly see the reasons why those people wish to come together and wish to show pride in the work that they have put into their machines. I suppose my philosophy at the time was that I wondered just what some of these people would have been doing if they were not putting so much of their time into their machines. I think there are some positive aspects to this, and there are some positive tourist advantages. Mr Collaery has rightly pointed out that those positive advantages need to be weighed up against the negatives, and those negatives have certainly been presented to us all.
I think that what we are really talking about is the quiet enjoyment of our own area for living, particularly those people who live near the National Exhibition Centre. The quiet enjoyment of their neighbourhood amenities, of course, is normally a part of the lease agreement that they have. They should be entitled to that, and it is incumbent upon us and particularly upon the Government to ensure that such an enjoyment is part and parcel of living in that area at the time.
I noticed in the Street Machine magazine for Summernats an advertisement where people emphasised the full range of the advantages, as they might see them, of the Summernats. The advertisement reads, "Blowers, burnouts and boobs", and there is a picture of a young woman semi-clad. I notice that you can also see her bellybutton. They have not mentioned bellybuttons, and I am surprised that it is not, "Blowers, burnouts, boobs and bellybuttons". Had that been the case, I am sure we would have heard further speeches from other members of the Assembly on this particular
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