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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 8 Hansard (31 August) . . Page.. 2817 ..

MR STEFANIAK (continuing):

corps that the university has had over the years, right from the time it was a college of advanced education until now.

Mr Speaker, I hope all members will join with me in congratulating the University of Canberra on its 30 years and wish its Vice-Chancellor, Don Aitkin, and its staff and students all the very best for the future. Happy birthday, University of Canberra.

MR BERRY (8.56): Mr Speaker, I want to raise an issue in relation to roadworks on Northbourne Avenue. My office was notified about a constituent who had been kept awake when roadworks had continued all through the night on the weekend of 24 and 25 June. We raised the matter in question time here on 29 June, I think. The minister responded on 14 July. He advised that the contractor was required to comply with all legislation, including the Environment Protection Act. Compliance included the requirement to notify residents prior to the work. The minister conceded that this was not done. We are not aware whether any action was taken against the contractor for failure to comply, and it would be interesting to find out whether any action has been contemplated in that respect.

The minister advised that the failure to notify residents was corrected the following weekend when a letterbox drop was carried out on the other side of Northbourne Avenue. We are now told by a constituent on the other side of the road that the notification issue again was not dealt with correctly. He was not notified when the work commenced again. There is this continual failure that I would like the minister to have a look at and to advise me about the action that will be taken in relation to what seems to be continual failure to notify of noisy work.

The second thing I want to mention is this: we are constantly reminded of failed campaigns of the past. I have been advised in my office that, in race 8 at Wyong, Feel The Power ran stone motherless last. I am not sure of whether it was a galloper, a dog, a harness horse or a pacer. I also see, Mr Speaker, from a program on Channel 10 last night, that we are constantly being reminded of incidents in the past. I think we were reminded of Mrs Carnell's accident up the highway some time ago.

MR SPEAKER: Be careful.

MR BERRY: More Canberra bashing as a result of this Chief Minister's performance. So, Mr Speaker, Feel the Power. I hope the minister is able to fix up the problem at Northbourne Avenue. I would like to see the Canberra bashing stop, but I don't think it is ever going to while we have this Chief Minister.

Question resolved in the affirmative.

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