Page 4480 - Week 14 - Thursday, 9 December 1993
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You will recall, Mr Wood, that I have asked questions about this Sutton Road Driver Training Complex. The most recent series of questions were responded to on 30 November 1993. One of the questions I asked was:
What was the value of the complex at the time of allocation of the lease?
I have to say that there was a certain disingenuousness in the answer, which was:
At the date of commencement of the lease the site was valued at $135,000.
You still get it for 10c. Goodness gracious, I wish I could get a site valued at $135,000 for 10c, on demand, I think you said, Mr Wood.
Mr Wood: That is dead right.
MR CORNWELL: We understand that the AFP valued the whole complex at $1.6m. I further understand, Madam Speaker, that there was a Valuer-General's estimate, following this, which put it at $2.5m. So this particular group, this ACT Regional Transport and Distribution Industry Training Council Incorporated, have certainly got themselves quite a deal. This organisation has a board of management.
Mr De Domenico: Who is on it?
MR CORNWELL: The chairperson of the ACT Transport Training Council; the general manager, roads and transport, Department of Urban Services; the manager, sport and recreation programs, ACT Office of Sport and Recreation. Let me quote the Minister again - "never meant to be used as a motor sport facility". I wonder why, therefore, the manager of sport and recreation programs, ACT Office of Sport and Recreation, should be on the board of this training complex. Does that person not have enough to do with their time that they have to go on other boards and authorities where they have no purpose or point? The road race secretary of the Canberra Road Racing Club is a member. Again, it was "never meant to be used as a motor sport facility". Mr John Hebron, of Hebron and Partners, is a member. I understand that he is a driving instructor and has every right to be there because that is part of the facility. There is also a gentleman by the name of Mr Peter Schulz of the ACT Trades and Labour Council.
Mr Wood: TWU.
MR CORNWELL: Thank you. He is from the Transport Workers Union. Mr Wood corrects me, and I am happy to stand corrected on the public record. I understand that the board is required to meet - this again is part of the terms - no less than once every three months. I further understand that it met once in the first six months of its operations. I wonder, therefore, just how much control is really being exercised over this very valuable facility, which is not to be used as a sporting facility, except that it has numbers of people from the sporting area on the board.
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