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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1996 Week 10 Hansard (4 September) . . Page.. 3039 ..

Mr Stefaniak: When you lot were in power last time, you cut services to Belconnen. Where were you then?

Mr Hird: Where were you? You were nowhere to be seen.

Mr Stefaniak: Where were you when they cut services to Belconnen in 1993-94?

MR SPEAKER: Order! If this noise keeps up I shall suspend the sitting.

MR BERRY: It is a gross dereliction of his duty to the club he is patron of. This is an important motion which ensures that bus services to the Kippax centre are preserved, that small businesses in the Kippax centre have their futures guaranteed and that they do not have the ground rules changed under them. People have bought into businesses there and developed businesses on a comprehensive bus service from eight suburbs. The community has built clubs and other facilities in that centre on the basis of bus services from those eight suburbs. We cannot endorse a move to withdraw the buses from those suburbs. This is a motion that calls on the Government to review this proposal and ensure that services from those suburbs to Kippax are not cut. Not everything stays the same. This is not a direction to the Government that everything has to stay the same. This calls on the Government to review its proposal and ensure that services to Kippax from the suburbs mentioned are not cut.

Mr De Domenico: In other words, stay the same.

MR BERRY: If I wanted you to ensure that they were all going to be there, I would list them by number and the streets they traversed and ensure that they were all going to stay exactly the same. Mr Speaker, what I am saying to the Government is that they ought to review the services in accordance with the intent of this motion and ensure that services to Kippax from Charnwood, Flynn, Fraser, Melba, Scullin, Hawker, Weetangera and Cook are not cut. What you intend to do now is to cut services from those suburbs. This motion calls on the Government to review this and to save small businesses. Small businesses are not doing it very easy at the moment, as everybody knows, and - - -

Mr De Domenico: Especially the Parliament House bookshop.

MR BERRY: Mr Speaker, the interjection about the Parliament House small business - - -

MR SPEAKER: Should be ignored. It is irrelevant.

MR BERRY: I suppose it should be ignored. It is owned by the Government, for heaven's sake.

Mr De Domenico: So that makes a difference?

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