Page 762 - Week 03 - Wednesday, 31 March 2021
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I would like to highlight a few of my constituent contacts and what I consider some notable achievements. It was great to meet with Lindsay, for example, out the front of his home in Latham, where construction trucks were parked in common area bushland, spoiling it in several ways. I met Paul in Hawker, near the Pinnacle nature park, where, rather unusually, a government-maintained drain ran uphill. I guess one should call that a pond rather than a drain. Robyn and Ian in Florey were concerned about mowing and the neglect of the local shops. Murray and Chris talked broadly about green space, planning and development.
I will give some snapshots of assistance I have been able to give to residents. I was glad to get the Minister for Planning and Land Management on record that the Margaret Timpson Park would be left as a green space. I helped a Weetangera resident, whose garden had been spoiled by weed spray, to get a good outcome after I wrote to the minister about that, despite there being a no-spray indication for that site.
I helped a student living in Dunlop with her request for improved car park conditions at CIT Reid and I helped with a Holt constituent’s request to have potholes on Southern Cross Drive fixed. That is one of Ginninderra’s main traffic routes that strangely develops potholes after light to medium rain. I supported several constituents with commonsense resolutions of parking infringement notices. I assisted a Page resident with a bulky waste removal request and ended up getting what should have been an original and correct decision. And I discussed road safety at the Jamison centre.
I have been fortunate to meet with local businesses, including Liquor Legends at Charnwood, Fraser Grocer, Duncan’s Plumbing, Page Tavern, Evatt Pharmacy, INSKIN Care Beauty Salon, Evatt Takeaway and Pizza Bar, and Evatt Butchery. I would like to give a particular shout-out to Herbert’s at Evatt, which is celebrating its first birthday this weekend. Come along and enjoy some local cheer.
I have also engaged with other organisations, both local and more broadly. It was a privilege to attend the Pakistan High Commission to celebrate Pakistan and, in the same week, to attend the Bangladeshi flag-raising ceremony. I have had the privilege on several occasions of attending men’s sheds in Belconnen, including at Hawker and at Page, and discussing planning uses with the Ginninderra Falls Association, the Friends of Hawker Village and Emu Creek Landcare group. I also attended the whole of Canberra Neighbourhood Watch gathering in Belconnen last week.
I had the privilege of attending the Belconnen Arts Centre and having a tour there and of being involved, as I have been for several years, with the Belconnen Community Council and participating in several clean-up events and weeding in the local area. I have also had the great privilege of attending, with Minister Cheyne, the launch of the future vision document at the University of Canberra. Thank you.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
The Assembly adjourned at 5.52 pm until Tuesday, 20 April at 10.00 am.
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