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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 5 Hansard (13 May) . . Page.. 1276 ..
MR HUMPHRIES (continuing):
Tuggeranong, your constituents. It meets a need which has been identified in your own study about Tuggeranong. If you think we should not be having a fast food outlet on that site, do not direct your question to me; turn around and talk to Mr Wood, because when he issued the Territory Plan in 1991 he said fast food could go on that site.
Mr Whitecross: You decide the timing, not him.
MR HUMPHRIES: What is wrong with the timing? What is happening to Chisholm at the moment which makes the difference? I will tell you what Chisholm needs. It is the same thing the rest of Tuggeranong needs, and the same thing the rest of Canberra needs. It is jobs. It needs jobs and it will get 100 in this proposal.
Finally, Mr Speaker, let me make reference to the fact that we have here people who are fair-weather friends of small centres. If you look back over the last six or seven years you will see that during the period of the Labor Government a very large number of sites were released for fast food outlets in smaller centres in the ACT. In 1991, at Wanniassa, a Red Rooster. That is your electorate, Mr Whitecross. In 1992, Belconnen, Sizzlers; in 1993, Belconnen, Red Rooster; in 1994, Florey, KFC; in 1995, Charnwood, McDonald's. Sites also offered by the Labor Party were: In 1995, Holt; in 1993 and 1994, Greenway. They were sites your colleagues, your brothers in arms, your comrades, released.
Mr Speaker, these people opposite cannot expect to be taken seriously if they say, on the one hand, that we should be creating jobs in this city, and opportunities and choices for shoppers - that is the theme of this week, choices for shoppers - and, on the other hand, argue that there should not be those very options being taken up in places like Tuggeranong.
MRS LITTLEWOOD: My question is to the Chief Minister. Chief Minister, in light of claims over the past week that the Government has scrapped plans to build two houses for people with disabilities at Fisher, can you please inform me whether this project is proceeding and when it is expected to be completed if it is proceeding?
MRS CARNELL: Mr Speaker, if I were Ms Reilly I would leave now, too. The project referred to is a very exciting one that has been jointly developed by Health and Community Care and ACT Housing and community groups working with people who have disabilities. It is extremely disappointing, Mr Speaker, that Ms Reilly has chosen to run a scare campaign on this issue, particularly when you know you are dealing with people who have disabilities. Mr Speaker, Ms Reilly claimed quite wrongly that the project was going to be scrapped - and I quote from her media release - "in favour of commercial gain". It is a quite outrageous allegation, Mr Speaker, and quite unfounded.
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