Page 807 - Week 03 - Wednesday, 27 February 2013
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We are giving you the opportunity now to actually deliver for them in a way that you have not. That might be the key to winning some of them back, rather than arrogantly ignoring them and claiming it is all about personalities. It is not all about personalities; it is about policies. It is about what people in Tuggeranong believe the various parties can offer them. When the Liberal vote is bigger than the Labor and the Greens vote combined, and by a reasonable margin, perhaps you need to look at that. And in the Lanyon valley, that was even stronger. That sentiment that was expressed in Kambah and Wanniassa, that was expressed in Fadden, Chisholm, Gilmore, Theodore and Richardson, was expressed even more strongly by the people of Conder, the people of Gordon and the people of Banks. They absolutely rejected what they were getting.
I think that the Labor Party, having neglected it, having bagged the policy of better facilities for the Lanyon valley, then said, “What we’ll do is we’ll have a water play area at the Tuggeranong pool.” Again, they are simply not getting it. Mr Smyth, Mr Wall and I, along with Nicole Lawder and Val Jeffery, heard from so many residents in Tuggeranong. We heard from single mums living in Banks. If you are at the low end of the income scale and you are living in Banks in a single parent household, there is a significant degree of isolation there. And anyone who does not recognise that simply has not been there.
The Lanyon valley has a broad demographic spread. It has some of the lowest income earners in our community and it has some medium and high income earners as well. But particularly for those at the lower end of the income scale, they can experience significant isolation where they are. What they were saying to us was, “We need something in our area. We need something for our children to do here in our area, in our local area. We shouldn’t have to go far away in order to get the kind of facilities we need.”
With respect to the response we had, I remember we had it from Mr Rattenbury on behalf of the Greens, saying there was no need, that there were far more important areas for swimming pools. We had the same message from the Labor government. This motion says, “You should do the work. You should actually deliver these kinds of facilities.”
Ms Gallagher: Yes, because you won’t.
MR SESELJA: Again we have the arrogance from the Chief Minister. The Chief Minister should heed what the people of Tuggeranong said. I do not think she would deny—maybe she wants to get up and deny that the people of Tuggeranong have delivered a clear message. Have the people of Tuggeranong delivered a clear message? They have. A big part of that was about a government that stopped interfering, a government that was taxing people too much and a government that was not delivering services, despite taxing people too much.
The people of Tuggeranong feel neglected, and the further south you go in Tuggeranong the stronger that feeling is. We should, as local representatives, be addressing that at every opportunity. A better built environment produces
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