Page 4360 - Week 14 - Wednesday, 30 November 1994
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MS SZUTY: I ask a supplementary question, Madam Speaker. Does the Minister consider that, if the school buildings are not completely replaced, that is an appropriate message to send to the people who were actually responsible for the burning down of the school buildings in the first place?
Mr Wood: What was the last part?
MS SZUTY: What message do you think it sends to the people who were actually responsible for burning down the school buildings in the first place if they are not completely replaced?
MR WOOD: That question is a bit hard to fathom. I think the appropriate message is, quite simply, that it is sensible that we talk to that school community about what happens within their school community. It seems to me to be eminently sensible. The department presented a range of options for discussion. I note that you are quoting from a report. It may be that someone from some part of that community has put a slant on the department's preferred option. I do not know about that. I know that they presented four options for discussion, and it is surprising that you would resist that.
Tuggeranong Hyperdome
MR KAINE: Madam Speaker, I have a question for Mr Wood, the Minister for the Environment, Land and Planning. I would really like him to answer this one.
Mr Lamont: Madam Speaker, I indicate that both Mr Connolly and I are also prepared to answer questions today.
MR KAINE: The trouble is that you do not answer the questions either. Madam Speaker, I refer the Minister to events yesterday, when he and his Government refused to allow discussion of a moratorium on further expansion of the Hyperdome until an analysis of the social and commercial needs of the area had been conducted. Minister, in light of your refusal even to discuss the damage which the proposed extension would inflict both on existing businesses and on employment, can you refute a statement made recently in the Australian supermarket magazine that, for every 3.9 people who lose jobs in suburban supermarkets, only one person will be re-employed by the larger supermarkets?
MR WOOD: It is interesting. Yesterday Mrs Carnell would not answer a question about who has been knocking on her door, but the same people quoted that to me.
Mrs Carnell: I did not know that you had asked me a question.
MR WOOD: You would not say who was knocking on your door. You seem to deny other people the right to lobby, but you do not want to acknowledge that people come visiting you. I am surprised that again today the Opposition want to run an issue on which they got hit all over the place yesterday. The plain fact is that the ACT Government is way ahead in its consideration of this issue. Suddenly, last week, the Leader of the Opposition jumped up and down, and said, "No, do not do anything".
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