Page 3595 - Week 12 - Tuesday, 19 October 1993
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MRS GRASSBY: I am quite sure that he will be young and he will have lots going for him. I am quite sure that Mr De Domenico will not be here, but never mind.
Ms Ellis: That will be available. It is all covered in the vision.
MRS GRASSBY: That is right, Ms Ellis. You are correct. We will have found a drug that will be able to keep Mr Kaine alive and like he is now. That is it. Just make sure that we keep it away from the rest of the Opposition.
Mr De Domenico: We will make him read your speeches.
MRS GRASSBY: Yes. That is very good, Mr De Domenico. If he has to read yours he will really curl up and die. I enjoyed reading the report. I think it was a very good idea, Ms Szuty.
MR MOORE (4.45): Thank you, Madam Speaker, for the invitation to speak on this vision for the future. I think it is worth drawing attention to page 52 of the Reference Group's report where, under the heading "Conclusion", they say:
In making action plans we set out to accomplish three things: ...
They set out the three things they wished to accomplish. The first was to solve many of the problems in 1993. They talk about unemployment and, in particular, other unwanted baggage. Some members seem to lose the tone of this piece of writing. It is set in the future, looking back. That appears to have been lost in some of the speeches that we have heard today. The writers said that they had a desire to create a non-violent Canberra, a walkable Canberra. They said:
We then set out to invent our way to achieve this.
They said that they thought carefully about things such as bushland, the nature of our city, our high value on education and the retention of bits of our heritage.
Madam Speaker, I would now like to refer to where the initiative for this vision came from. We know that Ms Szuty put it up in the Assembly and she deserves to be congratulated on that. Ms Szuty had a vital part in writing the platform upon which she and I stood. Our platform, at the very beginning, deals with the vision. It states:
We must look to 2020, thirty years hence, and work towards a sustainable future. We must deliver for our children a sustainable and stable economy, a sustainable and enriching environment, with equal rights to health, education, employment. Our plan to 2020 must set social priorities.
Planning is the centre of this vision for Canberra. It is a vision in which all members of the community share and it is through a visionary approach and a planning strategy we have gained the Canberra we have now.
By planning to the year 2020 we accept the same challenge as the planners of the early 60s who formulated the decentralised town centre concept: the plan that has delivered to us a Canberra where the urban environment is second to none in the world.
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