Page 153 - Week 01 - Wednesday, 15 February 2006
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election that we would do in relation to dedicated public transport was, quite simply, that we would get our money in order.
Mr Corbell: They are all there: adult journeys to work, concessions, schools.
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order! Mr Corbell, be a bit quieter. I cannot hear Mrs Dunne.
MRS DUNNE: The really important thing, if you are going to do anything about improving public transport in this territory, is to get your money in order. Mr Corbell went out and shot his bolt that he was going to do all sorts of things, but he had not actually worked out where the money was coming from. He said that he is talking about engineering, what colour the buses would be and all of that, but he has not talked about where the money would come from.
What this opposition committed to do at the last election was to investigate the best way of building integrated public transport in this town, to find the money to do it; not to commit to do it and then say, “Oh, gosh, where are we going to get the money for that? We won’t do it”—actually put the horse before the cart and find the thing that would drive the public transport, that is, the money. That is the thing that Mr Corbell has failed to do. He asked us to say what we would do. I have said what we would do. We would make the whole system an integrated one and we would find the money to do it before we committed to building it.
Mr Corbell: You would do another study. That is all you would do, another study.
MRS DUNNE: Mr Corbell refers to doing another study. Mr Corbell has had an exceedingly large study. He has had the public transport feasibility study. He has had all of the studies related to the integrated transport plan. We had demand responsiveness and those sorts of things. It was about how to integrate. But one of the things he forgot to do was to find out how much money was in the piggy bank. He did not find out and now he is embarrassed.
Mr Corbell: Why do you want to do another one? Why do you want to do another study?
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: Mr Corbell, you are being repetitious. Keep it down.
MRS DUNNE: Mr Corbell has also said that he and the government of which he is a member are committed to greenhouse gas reductions, unlike members on this side of the place. Let us do a little mental exercise, Mr Deputy Speaker. Who abandoned the greenhouse targets quite recently? Was it the Smyth opposition? No, it was the Stanhope Labor government. They abandoned greenhouse targets because they said it was too difficult. They have been softening up the territory for well over a year and they have lost all credibility on greenhouse. The greenhouse baby has gone out with the bath water.
Public transport is a very important means of reducing emissions by one of the most prolific causes of greenhouse gases. It is good to see Mr Corbell is really across all these figures that he is able to quote them. The real figure he is not across is where the money will come from. The thing is that if you are really going to address the greenhouse issue
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