Page 203 - Week 01 - Thursday, 9 April 1992
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It is also a very important decision, Madam Speaker, to accelerate the roadworks in this area of the valley. A massive $7.4m, as I have said, will be spent in the next year on improvements. Work is expected to commence in August on stage 2 of Tharwa Drive from Box Hill North to Drakeford Drive and on stage 3 from Drakeford Drive to Johnson Drive. I know that the improvement to access for Conder-Banks-lower Gordon residents to the rest of Tuggeranong and Canberra will go a long way to alleviating the isolation currently experienced by these residents.
I must say that prior to the election there was a lot of scaremongering about Tuggeranong being ignored by this Government after the election. I am pleased to say that this Government has a much greater commitment to the principles of social justice and to the people of Tuggeranong than was being claimed by some of our political opponents. The accelerated capital works program is clear evidence of this continuing commitment to Tuggeranong.
Ms Lyn Lane
MR CONNOLLY (Attorney-General, Minister for Housing and Community Services and Minister for Urban Services) (4.52): While as a Minister I do not make a practice of jumping to speak in the adjournment debate, I think it is important today because today is the last sitting day before the retirement from the ACT Government Service of a very long-serving - some 24 years - staff member who is familiar to all of us who were part of the First Assembly. I refer to Lyn Lane, from the Housing and Community Services Bureau, who is currently serving as my departmental liaison officer. She has been serving in that role since July 1991.
Lyn was one of that small, brave band of officials who were part of the First Assembly. She came in March 1989 on a transfer to that core of people who established the First Assembly. All of us who served in the First Assembly - I am in the unique position of having served for half of the First Assembly - are grateful to the officials who - - -
Mr Kaine: Half your luck.
MR CONNOLLY: I would have got up you more if I had been there for the whole time. We are grateful to that group of officials, who really did so much to ensure the smooth functioning of the Assembly. I am sure that all members who were there that first time around know of and appreciate Lyn's efforts as part of that team and would join me in wishing her well on her severance from the service. We hope that it does not mean that it is the last we will see of her.
Ms Lyn Lane : Iranian Embassy
MR HUMPHRIES (4.54): First of all, I endorse the comments that the Attorney has made. Ms Lane has been a valued member of the Assembly's operations for the last three years. I recall her assistance upon many occasions. Her presence will be greatly missed by all of us who have had the pleasure of knowing her work in the Assembly in that three-year period.
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