Page 4201 - Week 14 - Tuesday, 29 November 1994
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MR DE DOMENICO (4.04): Madam Speaker, quite obviously, the Chief Minister, despite turning up last night to unveil the plaque at a club in Tuggeranong, does not know what the community of Tuggeranong is saying.
Mr Wood: You did not even want to ask them. You just said, "No, you cannot have it". You did not want to know what they were saying. So, do not stand up and start your speech like that.
MADAM SPEAKER: Mr Wood, you have had your turn.
MR DE DOMENICO: Thank you, Madam Speaker. It does not surprise me that Mr Wood is getting a bit perplexed because, in his usual way, he has been caught out. Who can forget the question without notice at the last time of sitting? Straight out of the blue, without Mr Wood knowing anything about it, he said, "Oh, yes, there have been discussions. I have had discussions with Mrs Kelly and I am ambivalent". He is not one way or the other. That is not surprising for someone like Mr Wood.
Mr Wood: I did not jump up and down and say no without thinking.
MR DE DOMENICO: It is not surprising for someone like Mr Wood. He was not going to go one way or the other. You never make a decision, Bill.
Mr Wood: Do it properly. That is the way to do it, Mr De Domenico.
MR DE DOMENICO: Let us have a look at what Mr Wood said. I am glad that you are going to do it properly, Mr Wood. We applaud that. Mr Wood asked a question when he stood on his feet. He said, "What do the people want?". That is a very good question that Mr Wood should have asked the people of the Tuggeranong Valley.
Mr Wood: One you have never asked.
MR DE DOMENICO: Mr Wood, I am pleased that you said that. That is not right. I will tell you in a minute whom we have asked. We will go through it. Mr Wood, we actually invited the people to come and talk to us. We invited them in. About 30 people from the Tuggeranong Valley, Mr Wood - all independent business owners in the Tuggeranong Valley - - -
Mr Wood: All have sectional interests, Mr De Domenico.
MR DE DOMENICO: We will talk about sectional interests, too, in a minute, Mr Wood. I am glad that you mentioned sectional interests. We talked to 30 local small business people employing local people in the Tuggeranong Valley. You should have talked to them as well. They would have told you exactly what they told us. They said unanimously, "We do not support an extension to the Tuggeranong Hyperdome to the stage suggested by Mrs Kelly".
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