Page 3786 - Week 13 - Tuesday, 8 November 1994
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Once the Federal Government, who has planning control of this peninsula and whose project the National Museum is, decided that they wanted to use that land for that project, then quite clearly we were in a different ball game. We will now, subsequent to that decision, pursue a land swap by way of compensation.
MR KAINE: I have a supplementary question, Madam Speaker. Minister, your statement to the Canberra Times of 19 October was quite specific, namely:
We certainly will be pursuing it, a land swap with the Commonwealth.
Only six days earlier you denied that you were talking about either a land swap or cash. Can we take your later statement as definitive - in fact, you are pursuing a land swap and you are not negotiating with the Commonwealth on the basis of payment in cash - and, therefore, Mr Cornwell's question is no longer relevant?
MS FOLLETT: Madam Speaker, clearly I will do the very best deal that I can for the Territory; but I think that the most likely way to proceed, at this stage, is by a land swap.
Public Events - Renting of Food Sites
MR STEVENSON: My question is to Mr Wood. It concerns the renting of sites to sell food and beverages at public events such as Floriade, which are either partly or mainly funded by the community. There is one specific instance of a local ice-cream manufacturer who has attempted to gain a site at various events such as Floriade, the Canberra Festival, the Canberra Show, the Kambah Village Fair, the Food and Wine Frolic and so on. I have been told that they were told, even though they manufacture ice-cream locally, that they are not to sell ice-cream. I have been told that there was no satisfactory explanation given, although I cannot verify that. In fact, they did rent a site at the recent Floriade. They were not allowed to sell ice-cream. If you look at the commercial deal, I think it is a good idea to rent sites, because we get some money back from them. A very large ice-cream manufacturer rented a number of sites for the full Floriade, and that worked out at $56 per site per day. It cost the local manufacturer $291 a day. That does not seem to be a good decision which would get for Canberrans the most amount of money and which would give local manufacturers the best go. There are a number of possible solutions. Firstly, each site could be rented on a day-to-day basis. There would be a major benefit in that, because you would not have the one company selling the same things all over the place; you would get variety. Also, you would give local companies a go.
Mr Lamont: How about we ask the question and you give the answer, or we give the answer and you ask the question?
MADAM SPEAKER: Order!
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