Page 4202 - Week 14 - Tuesday, 29 November 1994
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Mr Connolly: Have you talked to the people who shop in the Hyperdome?
MR DE DOMENICO: Yes, we have, Mr Connolly. Do you know where the Hyperdome is, Mr Connolly?
Mr Connolly: You bet.
MR DE DOMENICO: Do you shop there, Mr Connolly?
Mr Connolly: I do, quite often.
MR DE DOMENICO: How many petrol stations around the valley are you going to close down? Don't you get involved in this debate.
Mr Connolly: They are both owned by Shell, are they not? There is real petrol competition in the valley, is there?
MR DE DOMENICO: I would not get involved if I were you, because it is the same story, Mr Connolly, for your information, through you, Madam Speaker. Which people are we here to support more than anybody else? We are here to support the community, for a start. The community, Mr Wood, if you listen to them, will tell you that they want, and insist on having, their little neighbourhood shops and little neighbourhood shopping centres.
Mr Wood: You wanted to stop that too.
MR DE DOMENICO: Mr Wood, let us get on the record once and for all what the - - -
Mr Wood: You wanted to stop that too.
MR DE DOMENICO: I am glad that you interject, Mr Wood. I do not often say that; but I am glad that you, in particular, interject, because I would like to put you right, time and time again, and I will. Let us see what the Opposition did say publicly, Madam Speaker. I quote:
The ACT Opposition has called for a moratorium on proposed extensions to the Tuggeranong Hyperdome and the imminent sale of a large retail-designated site at Greenway.
That is what the Opposition has said publicly, Mr Wood. We have also said:
... neighbourhood shopping centres were an important component of Canberra's planning.
That is what we said. We also said - - -
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