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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 3 Hansard (10 April) . . Page.. 862 ..

MR CORBELL (continuing):

The concerns raised by members of the community at the meeting last Saturday went beyond this particular issue. They addressed the issue of public transport. Again, this is an issue that will be taken up with the referral of these matters to the committee. A viable public transport system that takes people where they need to go when they need to go is very important. At the moment we do not have a public transport system that addresses those issues. It is not a viable and responsive system. It is failing the people of Canberra - the people of the inner north, the people of Gungahlin and the people of Belconnen, just as it is failing anyone else in Canberra.

The other fundamental issue is employment dispersement and where you place jobs in Canberra. This Government has a policy of putting all the jobs that are created in Canberra into the city. That is placing major demands and major stresses on traffic travelling from the other town centres in Canberra into the city. It is little surprise that people in Lyneham, O'Connor and Turner as well as Downer, Dickson, Hackett and Watson are seeing an increase of traffic through their suburbs. People have to go to where the work is. The work is in the city. People are travelling through suburbs to get to that point. We need an overarching policy that deals with the issue of employment dispersement, the restoration of the Metropolitan Plan and the restoration of the Y plan, which would ensure a dispersement of employment to near where people live, instead of trying to create a central business district which only fosters the interests of those people who own property in the inner city.

I think those sorts of issues need to be addressed. I think this attachment to the reference to the Planning and Environment Committee is a valuable way to go. I commend Ms Tucker for bringing on the motion and I am very happy to support it.

Question resolved in the affirmative.

MR BERRY (12.09): In accordance with standing order 152, I move:

That order of the day No. 1, Assembly business, relating to the disallowance of Determination No. 227 of 1996 made pursuant to the Health and Community Care Services Act, be discharged from the Notice Paper.

This motion of disallowance was introduced into this place as an open invitation to the Government to fix up a problem which had developed in the light of Mrs Carnell's failed management of determinations pursuant to the Health and Community Care Services Act. These determinations had been thoroughly criticised in the nicest language by the Scrutiny of Bills Committee, and the motion to disallow determination No. 227 was to prompt the Government into action to fix the problem.

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