Page 4214 - Week 11 - Thursday, 17 Sept 2009
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MR HARGREAVES: I am being brief by Liberal Party standards, Mr Hanson. I think the Liberal Party has got the record for making a speech; it was about 6½ pages long.
The location of the land we have available to us is something which drives the location suitability of the houses we build on it. But we need to understand that is it not green field that we are necessarily looking for. It goes to Ms Le Couteur’s question around the location of the town centres. Where we have got the land that we own where we can build, we will take advantage of that. An example is a car park area in Braddon near the old Rex Hotel. It is at the back; it has not been used as a car park for heaven knows how long—10, 15, 20 years. When I used to drink there as a kid, it was not used either; the one in front was. It was used, but not for parking cars. The thing is that that can now be used to provide older persons accommodation to allow—
Mr Hanson: Madam Assistant Speaker, I raise a point of order. You made a ruling that the minister should address—
MADAM ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Should respond.
MR HARGREAVES: I am.
Mr Hanson: But he is clearly not. He has been doing that for the last 10 minutes of his brief speech.
MADAM ASSISTANT SPEAKER: No, just within the last few minutes. He did address me, Mr Hanson. There is no point of order.
MR HARGREAVES: You are making it longer. It is your own fault. You will love the sound of my voice when I am finished.
The thing is that those blocks of land enable us to build older persons units on them to release properties in, say, Ainslie so that older persons can still age in place within the context of Ainslie, Braddon and those sorts of places. Then we can release those homes for more people to go into. So we were actually doing an urban consolidation in that sense.
A similar sort of package applies to the Mount Neighbour precinct because of its proximity to Kambah Village. Madam Assistant Speaker Burch, you would know this; it is your electorate and you live there. You will know that the reason why we did not support the development of older persons accommodation on the Murrumbidgee golf course was that older persons units should be within 400 metres of a major shopping precinct—like Jamison and like Kambah. And that is why we were keen to see the Mount Neighbour precinct done. That is only about 200 metres away, I think.
The choice of location is about whether we have land where something can be built within the time frame, whether or not the land that is available to us has a house to be demolished or moved so that another one can pop up in its place in the time frame.
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