Page 527 - Week 02 - Thursday, 25 February 1993
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Parking Infringements - Penalties
MR CONNOLLY: Mr Stevenson today asked me a question about the number of licences or rights to drive or registrations that have been cancelled since the default system has been introduced. I did mention that I thought he had approached my office about this some time ago, and indeed he had - in the first week of February, well before we were sitting. In future I will take up Mr Stevenson's recommendation that I file these questions under "D" for Dennis so that they are easy to locate in my question time brief.
Mr Humphries: "D" for something.
MR CONNOLLY: "D" for something, Mr Humphries interjects. Since fine default legislation was commenced in 1990, some 8,862 licences, registrations or rights to drive have been processed in all the Territory for parking and road traffic infringements. I will recite the breakdown of those in 1992-93 but I will give Mr Stevenson more detailed figures. In 1992-93, for parking infringements, 185 licences have been cancelled, 188 registrations have been cancelled and 1,521 rights to drive have been cancelled. In relation to those there have been renewals after payment of 325 licences, 225 registrations and 1,400 rights to drive. Those figures for renewals are actually larger than cancellations because they overlap the years. In relation to non-payment of traffic infringement notices, this year it has been 63 licences, five registrations and 79 rights to drive. So the overwhelming majority of these cancellations relate to parking rather than traffic, but I will give a more detailed breakdown to Mr Stevenson.
RSL Retirement Village
MR WOOD: Madam Speaker, I have something from the "K" for Kaine file from yesterday.
Mr Kaine: "T" for Trevor.
MR WOOD: As you wish. Mr Kaine asked me yesterday about the current position of the application of the RSL to build on Lake Ginninderra. He inquired whether the secretary of my department had given, as he said, "an unequivocal guarantee" to the Belconnen Community Council on Tuesday that the project would not proceed. The Government has been discussing the RSL proposal for some time and no decision has yet been made on the proposed development.
The secretary of my department met with the president of the Belconnen Community Council, Mr Henry, and two representatives on Tuesday morning prior to that council's meeting on Tuesday evening. Among other things, the representatives of the council asked about the current status of the RSL proposal for a retirement village on the lake. Mr Townsend told the Belconnen Community Council representatives that the Government's position had always been that the site previously proposed by the RSL immediately on the foreshore of Lake Ginninderra would not be available for development as had originally been proposed by the RSL. The secretary further advised the representatives that the department was currently considering an alternative proposal from the RSL. That is the case. That is what was said. Representatives of the RSL will be having further discussions with the department. They talk also, as you know, to the Community Council and to other people.
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