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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 2 Hansard (26 February) . . Page.. 479 ..

MR HUMPHRIES: Last Thursday Mr Wood asked me a question concerning the tender process recently conducted by the Gungahlin Development Authority for a licensed club in the Gungahlin Town Centre. In particular, Mr Wood asked:

Can you inform us at what point in the process Woolworths agreed to pay the $700,000 for stormwater and sewerage works as a result of the change in the location of the proposed sports precinct? Can you also inform us whether all the tenders were advised of Woolworths' agreement to pay for those capital works?

Mr Speaker, I can tell the Assembly that those arrangements agreed with Woolworths for stage 1A have nothing at all to do with the change in the location of the sports precinct. In fact, there has been no change in the location of the sports precinct, only a change in the location of various facilities in the precinct, including the enclosed oval. This will have no effect on the agreement with Woolworths, which was negotiated before the need to relocate the proposed oval was identified. The authority has advised me that Woolworths are required, under their lease and development conditions, to provide all access roads and services to their site in stage 1A. Most of these services - hydraulic, electricity, gas and telephone services - will need to be connected to their site from systems being brought into the town centre by the Government as part of the construction of the entrance road to the town centre.

Woolworths are required to prepare a stormwater master plan for stage 1A. They must construct adequate stormwater works. Woolworths must also bring sewerage services to stage 1A, which requires the construction of a trunk sewer from Gundaroo Drive to the Gungahlin Town Centre. The trunk sewer will also service - this might have been the cause of Mr Wood's confusion - the recreation, education and entertainment precinct. Sewer services to individual blocks and all other services required for sites within this precinct will need to be constructed by the developers of sites within the precinct or the Government as required. That depends on who exactly is doing the developing. For the development of the sites within the whole precinct, the servicing requirements remain substantial and therefore the provision of separate advice to any proponent on the specific servicing proposals for stage 1A was not considered necessary.

MR STEFANIAK: Mr Speaker, during question time I started reading article 40 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and you upheld a point of order in relation to that. I seek to make that point now. It relates to exactly what Ms Tucker was going on about yesterday. I will read paragraph 4 again. I was in midsentence when the point of order was taken. Paragraph 4 states:

A variety of dispositions, such as care, guidance and supervision orders; counselling; probation; foster care; education and vocational training programmes and other alternatives to institutional care shall be

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