Page 1332 - Week 04 - Thursday, 5 May 2022
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Opposition members interjecting—
MADAM SPEAKER: Members.
MR DAVIS: Mr Parton occupied valuable space on his newsfeed today to share a media article on a cheap political hit job his fellow member for Brindabella Nicole Lawder tried to launch on me a few days ago. But he did not take it upon himself to engage with the constituents of Brindabella over the course of this week.
Ms Lee interjecting—
MR DAVIS: Ms Lee, you had your go.
Ms Lee interjecting—
MADAM SPEAKER: Ms Lee, enough.
MR DAVIS: Mr Parton did not take the opportunity to use his well-known social media presence to talk about this question. No; he thought his followers would be more interested in having a chat about Ms Lawder’s political hack job on me earlier in the week, not about how our district—
Ms Lee interjecting—
MADAM SPEAKER: Ms Lee. Ms Lee.
MR DAVIS: how our suburbs will be reshaped into the future.
MADAM SPEAKER: Ms Lee, if I need to come to you again, you will be warned.
MR DAVIS: I think that is incredibly telling of the priorities of this Canberra Liberals opposition. I am genuinely shocked not only that they would bring this motion to the Assembly but about the lack of homework done in order to prepare for this motion.
Minister Gentleman, in his remarks, mentioned a western Greenway community feedback report of 2016. I would like to read a few excerpts from that report so that I can let the Canberra Liberals know what the Brindabella community thought of such a proposal at that time. Minister Gentleman did outline the feedback received from that report. So that the Assembly is aware, there were 1,800 visits to the YourSay website, 259 contributions to the YourSay online forum, 47 emails to the project team, 14 written submissions and 80 attendees at the Tuggeranong Community Council meeting, where I suspect Ms Lawder and Mr Parton would be very welcome to present their thoughts on the Murrumbidgee residential development. There were meetings with seven community organisations and 15 letters to the minister.
The group summarised their report—those interested can find it on my Facebook page—by saying this:
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