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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 4 Hansard (6 May) . . Page.. 996 ..

Mr Kaine: That is if the TWU will let us.

MRS CARNELL: I was just going to make a comment on that, Mr Kaine. In other areas such as, I think, Bennett House, the level of the recycling is down to taking ceramic tiles off the walls, actually wrapping them in plastic and stacking them so that they can be reused. There are something like 10,000 bricks that will be cleaned and given to charity.

Ms McRae: Only 10,000?

MRS CARNELL: There could be even more than that - I do not know - but that is how many there are at the moment. Things are being reused. I can promise Ms Horodny that the tower block and Sylvia Curley House do not still have all of the bits and pieces internally that can be recycled. They have all been taken out or are being taken out.

As Mr Kaine just said, there is a bit of a problem right now, because it seems the TWU has set up a picket line on Acton Peninsula. Mr Berry, I think, on radio this morning, actually thought it was a quite good idea. The reason that the picket line is in place is that it appears that the TWU do not like the fact that the Newcastle contractor hired local people who are members of the CFMEU.

Mr Whitecross: He brought people from Newcastle.

MRS CARNELL: They are not; they are local CFMEU members.

MR SPEAKER: Order! The Chief Minister is answering the question.

MRS CARNELL: This is, I accept, not to do with the question, but I have to say that this is a project that matters to this city. Hopefully, next Tuesday the Federal Government will announce significant dollars for the National Museum. We have to clear the site and we have a demarcation dispute between two unions.

MS HORODNY: I have a supplementary question, Mr Speaker. So much for jobs for Canberra! Could you tell us exactly where at Fairbairn Park this rubble is going? We have heard that it will not be used to build noise reduction mounds around the existing racetracks but will be placed around a new speedway that Mr Stefaniak has told the racing clubs will be approved on the adjoining block, which will dramatically worsen the noise problems faced by Ridgeway residents. I am talking about the rubble.

MRS CARNELL: Mr Speaker, to my knowledge, there is no new speedway proposal. The mounds that will be put at the current Fairbairn Park track will be subject to design and siting approval, as they should be.

Mr Humphries: Public notification.

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