Page 3630 - Week 08 - Friday, 24 August 2012
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Museum and Gallery or CMAG, including the Nolan Gallery, and historic places at Lanyon, Calthorpes’ House and Mugga-Mugga. In managing these facilities, we provide a range of cultural services to the community, including performing arts presentations, exhibitions, educational centres, community programs and other events.
In this budget there is funding for upgrades to the Canberra Theatre Centre, and I am very pleased to see the funding for projects at Lanyon homestead.
I thank the executive and the staff of the CFC for the work they have done over the year. I acknowledge the retiring members who finished their terms over a number of years, including those who finished their terms in August, a couple of weeks ago. Glenys Roper, the deputy chair, and Pamille Berg and Crispin Hull have finished their time on the board, and their years of service are to be commended. In December last year, we did have a new chair. John Hindmarsh has come in as the chair of the CFC and has been steering the organisation in good stead and has significant aspirations for the future of CFC.
Proposed expenditure agreed to.
Proposed expenditure—Part 1.22—Exhibition Park Corporation—$412,000 (net cost of outputs) and $1,826,000 (capital injection), totalling $2,238,000.
MR RATTENBURY (Molonglo) (4.23): I will make a couple of very quick remarks on Exhibition Park. I thought that in the estimates report there was a very interesting reference—and this discussion took place in the committee—about the Gungahlin-Civic transit corridor when it comes to Exhibition Park. Paragraph 7.36 notes:
EPC does not have any specific transport plans at present; however, it was of the general view that it is important to have high-frequency transport running past the venue to encourage more patrons to utilise public transport rather than private vehicles.
I thought this was a very interesting paragraph in the broader context of transport across the city. We have now got, of course, the park and ride available just across the road from Exhibition Park. The anecdotal evidence I hear is that it is taking a little while to become popular. It is probably less utilised than we might have ideally hoped, but I am sure it will catch on over time. But I think Exhibition Park have identified a very good point here around the value of having regular, high-frequency public transport down that corridor.
The other observation I would make is that I am pleased to see that the redevelopment of the petrol station site has finally taken place. I am not sure that Canberra needs another multinational fast-food outlet on that site but I am sure it will be immensely popular and no doubt will have a booming time across many weekends when Exhibition Park is being used. But given there is another 24-hour one just down the road, who knew that we needed another on Northbourne Avenue? But there you go.
MR BARR (Molonglo—Deputy Chief Minister, Treasurer, Minister for Economic Development and Minister for Tourism, Sport and Recreation) (4.25): EPIC is a leading event draw card for the territory and the surrounding region and is responsible
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