Page 5586 - Week 13 - Wednesday, 17 November 2010
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Amend open space provisions to remove requirements for a neighbourhood playing field.
They are being removed. The minister can say all he wants. His variation says “remove”. It also says:
As with Casey, minor changes to open space provisions respond to advice from Sport and Recreation Services (Department of Territory and Municipal Services) that a landscaped open space be provided for local recreation use instead of a neighbourhood playing field.
The minister has just said there will be an oval in both of them. His own variation says there will not be. No wonder there is no confidence in this minister—
Mr Barr: Guess what, Brendan, I will make you this deal this afternoon. I will go and kick a footy with you in the new community recreation irrigated parks when they are finished.
MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Mr Barr!
MR SMYTH: In the park?
Mr Barr: Yes.
MR SMYTH: I am happy to kick a footy in a park. Kicking a footy in a park is a fine thing. But will there be an oval?
Mr Barr: I will even have a barbecue. I cannot believe I am saying this, but I will even cook you a sausage.
MR SMYTH: This is the problem. Sorry, somebody is misleading the Assembly here. I hope you take note of this, Ms Le Couteur. You say, “Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.” But the story changes from speech to speech now. It changes from variation to variation. I will read it again. I do not think it can be any clearer. In regard to Crace, it says:
Amend open space provisions to remove the requirement for a neighbourhood playing field.
We are going to remove the requirement. I continue:
As with Casey, minor changes to open space provisions respond to advice from Sport and Recreation Services (Department of Territory and Municipal Services) that a landscaped open space be provided for local recreation use instead of a neighbourhood playing field.
I am not saying the space has changed. I have never said that. What I have said is that the ovals are going. Will it be a space informally to kick a football? Apparently so, and I have always understood that to be the case. Will fixtures for any sporting group be able to be played here?
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