Page 547 - Week 02 - Wednesday, 20 February 2019
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he said, “Get on with it; do it.” Certainly, my intention is that we do get on with it and that we do it. That is why I have brought forward this motion, just as we do get on with doing many things in the Gungahlin area, including opening the nurse-led walk-in centre, expanding schools and building light rail—all those things that I outlined in my speech. This is the next step.
This is not about a lack of facilities. This is not about not having any facilities or not doing the planning. This is recognising that the area of Gungahlin is growing. The population is growing quite rapidly. It is one of the fastest growing areas in Australia. This is about recognising that we need to look at the future, and we need to provide for that. We must include people, and the people of Gungahlin, in that discussion about what facilities we include in this centre.
I take Mr Milligan’s point—and Mr Coe made the same point—that you can talk to anyone in the area and they will give you their two cents worth. The problem is that if you talk to someone else, they will give you a different two cents worth. We need to bring all of those ideas together. That is where I think we are up to. It is about having a feasibility study which truly captures where the population is at now, what the opinions are, how we can incorporate that into a site and where to best locate it within the town centre, because I think we can all agree that that is the right area. We need to pretty much get on with it from there.
I appreciate that Mr Milligan is really keen to do that in two months time. That is probably a little bit unrealistic, so I would like to move the following amendment to Mr Milligan’s proposed amendment which inserts a slightly more realistic time frame:
Omit paragraph (2)(c), substitute:
“(c) include funds towards the development of a community centre in the 2019-20 financial year.”.
Ms Orr’s amendment to Mr Milligan’s proposed amendment agreed to.
Mr Milligan’s amendment, as amended, agreed to.
Original question, as amended, resolved in the affirmative.
Adjournment
Motion (by Mr Gentleman) proposed:
That the Assembly do now adjourn.
Waitangi Day
Personal explanation
MRS KIKKERT (Ginninderra) (6.34): Australia and New Zealand enjoy a closeness that grew naturally out of our interconnected histories and our geographical proximity. It is perhaps fitting, therefore, that our respective national days also fall close together.
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