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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 7 Hansard (25 June) . . Page.. 2081 ..

MR STEFANIAK: I think you might find that immediately to the north of that there is the old track which has been declared unsafe. Perhaps you should go out and have a look at that on the ground, Ms Horodny. I think you will find that is all very much in the same area. If it is about the same size as the old track, it is not a particularly big area that we are talking about. I understand in relation to the other tracks that there is mound construction. There might be some additional work just in relation to those tracks. I have not seen the assessment. I do not know.

What we are trying to create there, Ms Horodny, or what they are trying to create, is a good site for a permanent venue which thousands of Canberra and Queanbeyan citizens enjoy regularly. Indeed, a lot of people come from interstate to participate in a lot of events there. This Government is very keen, too, to address some other longstanding issues such as the perennial problem of noise, the problems motor sports have had with that and the problems certain nearby residents have maintained they have had as well. That is something we are looking at addressing. The proposed mounds and the beautification will greatly improve that amenity, which is, I stress, an amenity used by many thousands of local people, ranging from children up to middle-aged and even elderly people who get a lot of pleasure from that.

MS REILLY: My question is to the Chief Minister.

Mrs Carnell: Are you going to ask me another one? Which number?

MS REILLY: Mr Speaker, I would really appreciate it if the Chief Minister actually listened to the question so that she can answer it. Chief Minister, I refer to the consultancy. You have employed Fay Richwhite and Associates to conduct a study of ACTEW. Can you inform the Assembly when this study of ACTEW by Fay Richwhite and Associates will be concluded, and will you table it, along with your Government's response, in the house?

MRS CARNELL: That is actually question No. 6 - "Will reports be written and, if so, can these please be tabled and circulated?". The answer to question No. 6 - just a second, I will get there - says this:

Yes, the reports will be written. The reports will contain commercial in confidence information and it is not appropriate that they be circulated beyond the shareholders and the Board of ACTEW and their advisers.

Mr Berry: The answer is no.

MRS CARNELL: You already know what the answer is because I have told you. As for when it will be finished, I think that we are talking about July or August. Here it is. That was question No. 5. The answer is:

It is now expected that the review will be completed by July 1997.

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