Page 2291 - Week 07 - Thursday, 27 August 2020
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infrastructure that Woden needs—community facilities, health, transport and education—and protecting and creating jobs in the process.
I am proud to be part of a government that has been delivering major projects like progressing light rail stage 2 to Woden to extend to the south side the benefits of the success we have seen with light rail stage 1. I remind Ms Le Couteur that it runs on 100 per cent renewable electricity and moves far more people than buses ever did along the Northbourne Avenue corridor.
I am very pleased to have approved the new public transport interchange for Woden, which will start construction in the new year, to renew ageing but much-needed infrastructure. We are delivering on the expansion of the Canberra Hospital to provide a new emergency department, operating theatres and acute capacity for our whole region in Woden. There are upgrades to the Woden Library. They are lesser known, but they will be really fantastic. We will potentially see the return of the reading kit at Woden Library and fantastic spaces for young people to use after hours as well.
Early work is underway on the feasibility and design of the new Woden community centre as a new home for Woden Community Service, which will provide flexible community spaces for the whole of the Woden Valley. The Hyacinth Street bike path is under construction, connecting Woden and Weston Creek across all three stages. We also have work starting on Corinna Street as part of the wider focus our government has been taking on active travel.
It has been fantastic to work with the vibrant communities in Torrens, Farrer and Waramanga on new play spaces for our younger citizens and to support them to get a good education, with upgrades to our local schools as well as our government’s work on rolling out three-year-old preschool to give them the best start at life.
In Weston Creek I have been pleased to work with some of our older citizens, with the fellas from the Weston Creek Men’s Shed to find them a new home in Rivett. Our Labor team did what we promised in building a new Weston Creek walk-in centre, which has been such a great asset during the pandemic over these past few months in providing respiratory assessment function.
To test out the lungs of our canines we have built the Duffy dog park, now to be irrigated. That will be a fantastic facility. In Kambah we have improved safety around Mount Taylor to provide better recreational amenity along Sulwood Drive. We delivered upgrades to Kambah village, which will be complemented by further private upgrades come Christmas.
There is so much more we have achieved right across our city, from making green bins available to every household in Canberra, rolling out bulky waste, getting the upgrades to our MRF underway, with the best organised jurisdictional response to the China sword program the country. We have delivered 10 rapid routes across Canberra as part of our transport system. We have made major reforms to our animal welfare laws to recognise animal sentience, an Australian first, and we have reformed our litter laws through policy. We will reform single-use plastics; we have introduced the policy and we will continue that work in the next Assembly.
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