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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 11 Hansard (28 November) . . Page.. 3296 ..
MR STEFANIAK: I should mention three other ovals. The bureau of sport has negotiated subleases on-
Mr Smyth: I take a point of order, Mr Speaker. Mr Corbell has just interjected that the minister had misled the Assembly and he should withdraw that.
Mr Corbell: I withdraw the comment, Mr Speaker.
MR SPEAKER: Thank you.
Mr Smyth: You should name him because he persists is doing so.
MR SPEAKER: He is consistently interjecting.
MR STEFANIAK: The bureau has negotiated subleases on two ovals whereby the maintenance management is to be the responsibility of nearby private schools. Public access is to be retained for those ovals, that is, Flinders Park, Griffith, which Canberra Grammar School has brought back to full maintenance, and the one at Hawdon Street, Dickson, involving Daramalan College. Also, I am advised that another oval, the Duffy Primary School oval, has been brought back to full maintenance and cricket will be played there this summer. I must go and check it out.
MR BERRY: Mr Speaker, I find it quite unbelievable that the minister would-
MR SPEAKER: Ask your supplementary question, please.
MR BERRY: How is it that the minister does not recall that Mawson oval, the Woden athletics field and the Mawson District Playing Fields were on the list of ovals which were being considered by the government for sale? Can the minister advise us how it was that, while he was assuring the Assembly and the community that these ovals were not for sale, the Department of Treasury and Infrastructure was actively putting the lie to that assurance? Why didn't the minister either stop the assessments or correct his public statements?
MR STEFANIAK: Mr Berry, you might find some of those areas do not even come within the purview of my department, in which case I think it would be for the Minister for Urban Services. I have given commitments in relation to all the ovals that I administer. The only ovals I actually administered which have been sold off have been sold off for sporting reasons. Go and have a look at Erindale Oval, which the Tuggeranong rugby club has redeveloped into a wonderful facility. I think that you will find a couple of other examples of that around Canberra. Ainslie Oval is one. In fact, I think that Mr Lamont might have had something to do with that one. It was pretty good. I cannot speak for any other areas that do not belong to my department; but, as far as my department is concerned, the record speaks for itself.
MR RUGENDYKE: My question is to the minister for business, Mrs Carnell. The minister may recall that during the recent Olympic Games the images of famous faces in Sydney to watch the event were beamed into our homes when spotted in the stands by
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