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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 11 Hansard (4 November) . . Page.. 3589 ..

MR KAINE (continuing):

I see it as a great tourism resource, in that people who choose to stay there will be in close proximity to places like Lanyon, Tuggeranong Homestead, Cuppacumbalong, Tidbinbilla, the tracking station, Namadgi National Park, and the Murrumbidgee corridor. I expect, once it is built, that a lot of people in future will choose to stay in Tuggeranong rather than in less salubrious places in Canberra. I know that other proposals have been around the traps for some time for other accommodation facilities down there. All I can say is that this is only the first; the more the better. The more tourists we get who come and stay in Tuggeranong the better.

MRS LITTLEWOOD (6.04): Mr Speaker, I would like to echo those comments and to add my delight that this will provide employment for young people in the valley. I visited the motel site late last week and I am delighted, as Mr Kaine is, to see that it is taking place. I look forward to the employment it will create for people within the valley.

Question resolved in the affirmative.

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