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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2003 Week 1 Hansard (19 February) . . Page.. 225 ..

MR WOOD (continuing):

They are designed for slow speed and are to be densely planted in a formal pattern. The boulevards will have generous verges and medians and high pedestrian comfort and amenity, making them highly compatible with mixed use developments. Side streets are proposed which provide access to development fronting the boulevard as well as separation of development and the central carriageways ...

The boulevards provide a legible connection of the Town Centre to Mitchell and contain a reserve for inter-town public transport. Due to their design and high amenity they are intended to provide a focus of high density mixed use communities oriented to public transport ...

It has been designed as a friendly, happy place for people-an urban village where they can walk around, where public transport works. I do not have time to read out what has been written about solar orientation, facing and maximising the sun. It has been carefully designed.

Please give credit for that. Give credit that we have spoken to the previous Gungahlin Community Council. We have done that. Perhaps we need to get out there a bit more and say, "Look, here is where we have been."But it is the case it has been carefully done and it is a good product.

MRS DUNNE (8.37), in reply: I thank members for their contribution tonight. I would like to just quickly have a look at what might be the take-home messages for the Labor Party in this debate.

Mr Wood: And what about your take-home messages?

MRS DUNNE: I can take messages as well. I would like to touch on and reinforce some of the things that have been said during the debate. Mrs Cross, Ms Tucker and Ms Dundas have all talked about collaboration, about how this is a collaborative process. Notwithstanding that, we have been confronted by a pair of fairly belligerent ministers. They are very testy and I just wonder what is so precious that suddenly there has to be this level of testiness.

Today Mr Wood has created a straw man. He stood here and said that this proposal and this motion throws out in one fell swoop nearly 10 years of planning. Mr Speaker, this is rubbish. We are all aware of the planning that has gone on over this. Many of us have been watching closely in a variety of places and a variety of ways and we know what has happened. We know that there has been extensive consultation. The principal message we are still hearing today is that the people of Gungahlin have said that they do not want a mall, and there are a lot of reasons for that.

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