Page 1450 - Week 06 - Wednesday, 6 June 2007
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Mr Hargreaves: Into public hands?
MRS BURKE: We must be the only capital city in Australia—
Mr Hargreaves: You don’t want to be in public hands?
MRS BURKE: Mr Temporary Deputy Speaker, I am sorry but I am finding it difficult to speak. There is a lot of noise.
MR TEMPORARY DEPUTY SPEAKER (Mr Gentleman): Members, there are conversations going on in the background. Mrs Burke has the floor.
MRS BURKE: Thank you. It must remain—
Members interjecting—
MR TEMPORARY DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order! Members of the Assembly, Mrs Burke has the floor. If you want to have conversations you can use the anteroom.
MRS BURKE: Thank you, Mr Temporary Deputy Speaker. I really appreciate your intervention. My voice is getting better but I am struggling. Thank you for your indulgence.
The Albert Hall must remain in public hands. We must be the only city in Australia, I would say—and somebody can correct me if I am wrong—that does not have its own dedicated town hall. So why would we not make the Albert Hall our town hall? Why would we not give it to the people? Why can we not work in a bipartisan way to find out how we can do that? Why are we not working with the Australian government and the NCA over section 53 to ensure that we can do that?
Mr Hargreaves: Because they are treacherous.
MRS BURKE: You can have your say again, Mr Hargreaves, but I think it is a sad indictment to watch—
Mr Hargreaves: They are the people that abolished the RNE.
MR TEMPORARY DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order!
MRS BURKE: this building go down—
Mr Hargreaves: The Registrar of National Estates.
MR TEMPORARY DEPUTY SPEAKER: Mr Hargreaves!
MRS BURKE: Thank you, Mr Temporary Deputy Speaker. It is a sad, sad day for Canberra to see this building simply going down the drain. It was pitiful to be in that hall with 400 or more people and to look at the state of disrepair. The occupational health and safety issues in that place are also of major concern to me.
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