Page 2178 - Week 07 - Thursday, 27 August 2020
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Producers within the creative industries in Canberra have received limited government funding during the COVID-19 crisis. Live in Ya Lounge, the COVID-19 live stream music program, has been forced to cease due to lack of support. For five months the event organisers have covered the base costs for 65 acts including musicians and actors for 32 live streamed shows. Revenue raising efforts included sponsorship, donations, live attendance tickets and a small festival grant, all of which have not covered the program costs.
Your petitioners therefore request the Assembly to call on the ACT Government to financially support Live In Ya Lounge by covering the venue and staffing costs to the value of $5,500 per show. This support includes a hire fee for artists and will make the program financially viable.
Waste—proposed Fyshwick facility—petition 22-20
By Ms Lee, from 12 residents:
To the Speaker and Members of the Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory
This petition of certain residents of the Australian Capital Territory draws to the attention of the Assembly that the ACT Waste Management Strategy 2011-2025 outlines the benefits arising from co-locating waste facilities in the Hume Resource Recovery Estate, including increasing resource recovery and reducing costs and traffic. We support this initiative, but it is being threatened by large waste facilities proposed in locations other than the Recovery Estate, and less than one kilometre from homes, childcare centres, food markets, cafes, retail shops, and environmentally-sensitive wetlands in Canberra’s Inner South.
Allowing these facilities to be located in Fyshwick will see waste processed too close for comfort and safety to where Canberrans live, work and play, including heightened risks of odour, dust, noise, and fire from:
- putrescent organic waste,
- asbestos-containing material,
- shredding car bodies,
- crushing construction and demolition waste,
- grease trap, drilling mud and oily water liquid waste.
The waste proposed across the two Fyshwick locations is 1.4 million tonnes annually - 40% more than the total currently going to Mugga Lane (around one million tonnes). The potential impact on the well-being and safety of thousands of people who visit Fyshwick daily is affecting business confidence and threatening the jobs of 13,000 workers.
Your petitioners, therefore, request the Assembly to call upon the ACT Government to reject any proposals for waste processing facilities in Fyshwick and work with the proponents to find more suitable alternate sites.
Waste—Belconnen facility proposed closure—petition 23-20
By Ms Le Couteur, from 887 residents:
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