Page 3574 - Week 09 - Thursday, 23 August 2018
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strange alien spaceship lighting structure erected there. Many hundreds, if not thousands, of Tuggeranong people have questioned what it is doing there and what exactly it is meant to achieve. They would like to see a lot more happening in that laneway precinct. That is backed up by other organisations, including the Tuggeranong Community Council.
We are still waiting on the completion of Ashley Drive. If you drive down there, you will see that there are still roadwork signs up, and there are still orange cones and all sorts of things.
We are still waiting on the completion of the healthy waterways project. If you look up the healthy waterways website, you will see that the Isabella Pond part was initially scheduled to be completed in July, a month ago now, but it is quite clearly not complete.
We have seen some work undertaken in the past year at Gartside Street. Whilst it has improved the appearance of Gartside Street, it has not improved the amenity, it has not improved the traffic flow, and it has not improved the parking. These are the types of things that Tuggeranong people tell me that they care about.
What we have in the budget is increasing rates, fees and charges, and increasing utilities costs, increasing the amount of money the government is raking in from the stamp duty concessions. On the other hand, we are seeing the removal of some concessions for seniors.
We have seen the government this year refuse to provide a shade sail over a playground in Greenway near the learn to ride park in Tuggeranong. The government has allocated millions of dollars—I think $2 million this year—to playground upgrades, to be determined by a citizens jury type process. Tuggeranong residents have already expressed their desire for this playground through a petition, one of the most longstanding and traditional ways in which constituents come to this parliament. It has been knocked back by this government.
Next year in the budget, the government is going to spend $60,000 on maintaining one park in Moncrieff. That is for the maintenance of one park. I can only imagine how expansive and wonderful a shade sail that $60,000 could have provided for that very small playground in Greenway, which has a metal slide which burns children when they go down it in summer. Surely a simple shade sail is not too much to ask.
The government is spending $60,000 next year to maintain one park in Moncrieff. They are very lucky residents. They have had $6.1 million spent on one park in Moncrieff. Spending $6.1 million on one park in Moncrieff is lovely, but it is cold comfort for people in Tuggeranong who want a shade sail over one little playground, let alone other things in Tuggeranong that they are asking for. There has been no commitment to, for example, a pop-up library in Lanyon. Lanyon is one of the suburbs furthest away from a library in the ACT.
There is some money in the budget for bikepaths, which is very welcome. Of course, I note that there is far less being spent in Tuggeranong on a bikepath network than there
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