Page 5521 - Week 15 - Wednesday, 9 December 2009
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outside of the cabinet. Members in here will never know the strength of advocacy Mr Smyth or I took to the cabinet. However, when Mr Doszpot talks about who got elected in what form, I suggest he go back and have a good look at Hare-Clark and also consider the number of times people have been returned to this place. There is a very good reason for that.
The Erindale area of town—and we have said it a number of times—was regarded as the potential town centre for the valley. Whoever decided to put the town centre next to the river I do not know, but I can suggest to you that they did not live in Kambah at the time, and they would not be welcome in the Tuggeranong Valley, anyway. However, we have developed the Tuggeranong town centre to be, in my view, the most beautiful of the town centres in terms of its architecture and its setting. Ms Le Couteur, I think it was, said that it was 20 years before there was some life coming out of the Tuggeranong town centre. Well, she clearly did not go to Platform 3 in the one visit last year, or to PJ O’Reilly’s, to the Buffalos club, to the four Vikings clubs, to the Burns Club or the—
Mr Hanson: No-one is denying that you went there frequently, John. No-one doubts that you were a regular attender of all the pubs in Tuggeranong.
MR HARGREAVES: She did not go to his place in Kambah. Mr Hanson, of course, you would have known where the nudist beach was at the Kambah pool; it is just down the road from your place.
Mr Hanson: The thought of seeing you naked, Mr Hargreaves—
MR HARGREAVES: You would know all about that. You could take Ms Le Couteur down to that part of the pool and we will all come down and make sure you have a good time.
Mr Hanson: No, no. I do not really want to see you naked.
MR HARGREAVES: There are so many things about the Tuggeranong Valley which are absolutely fantastic, but it is a mistake to think that there was no town centre master plan for the Tuggeranong town centre. It did exist. I can remember Mr Smyth and I drawing swords when we talked about development around the lake foreshore. But essentially we applauded the organised sport that was going on around that lake; it was just the details that we disagreed on and also the consultation process, which quite frankly drew a mark of two out of 10.
Notwithstanding that, the Erindale area has been in dire need; I have been talking for years of another organised approach to it. It has been the subject of band-aiding for a very long time. Mr Smyth talked about the positioning of the petrol station. I can remember the furore over the positioning of the exit from that Scottish restaurant on the street opposite the car park. We will not say McDonald’s in here, but we will say Scottish restaurant.
The thing is that it has been the subject of band-aiding for a considerable amount of time and now is the time to stop the band-aiding. We have put in speed humps, we have put in pedestrian crossings, we have tried to accommodate the big trucks getting
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