Page 265 - Week 01 - Wednesday, 15 February 2012
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proposing improved pedestrian links in Erindale;
proposing additional car parking areas in Erindale;
commissioning an extra study—
surprise, surprise—
which focuses on the traffic and car parking issues in the centre …
There is also an interagency working group that has been formed to assess the recommendations, to address the issues raised in the petition. Minister, all I can say to you is that I spoke with some of the Gartside Street traders today just to make sure that there was not anything that had happened in the last few days that I was not aware of, and despite all the consultation, despite all your promises, what the Gartside traders are facing are the same drastic problems which they had and which forced them to act and try to get together hundreds and hundreds of petitioners, hundreds and hundreds of people in Tuggeranong, calling on you to fix their problems.
I never heard Ms Burch once, not once, address the issue of the traders in Gartside Street. I have not heard too many people in this Assembly, apart from the Libs, pushing the issue that people have now, pushing the needs of the community that is hurting from lack of planning, and not only hurting through lack of planning but through even more issues that they have faced because of the additional planning problems that seem ready to be inflicted on them by the master plan that was presented to the community.
Madam Assistant Speaker, I think the details have been covered enough, and I can assure you that the people of Tuggeranong are angry about the way that they have been treated by this government over the last 11 years. I am looking forward to seeing how their anger will manifest itself in October this year.
MR SMYTH (Brindabella) (8.47): I will close. It is clear the amendment that Ms Bresnan has proposed will get up. It does contain the majority of what I have in my motion. I think it is a shame that the reference to the maintenance of Tuggeranong and the appearance of Tuggeranong as a low priority of the Gallagher government is removed. But they are the numbers.
Ms Burch, in her contribution to the debate, talked about the new fund, the urban infrastructure fund. The fact that they have to establish that clearly shows that they have not been funding maintenance properly, and the fact that it is to clean up the mess that exists there is simply confirmation that they have got it wrong and that they have neglected maintenance in the territory. So the case is easily made.
I have lived in Tuggeranong for some 23 years now. It is certainly where my family and I choose to live, for a whole number of reasons. We love the view of the mountains, the accessibility, the neighbourhood in which we live and the friends that we have there. I am pleased to have had this opportunity to bring to the attention of the Assembly the needs of the people of Tuggeranong. I am pleased to have read out the rather long litany of things that the people of Tuggeranong want fixed in the lead-
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