Page 492 - Week 02 - Thursday, 3 March 1994
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MS FOLLETT: Madam Speaker, I have not held and I do not hold the Assembly's committees in contempt. I agree absolutely with the point that Mr Moore has made, and I have made those precise points myself within living memory on more than one occasion. It is a matter of great regret, Madam Speaker, that there are a number of Assembly reports on which the Government's response is outstanding. I have sought to expedite those responses and I will continue to do so. It is my intention that, when the Assembly sits again, all of those matters will be dealt with expeditiously.
ACTTAB - Contract with VITAB Ltd
MR WESTENDE: Madam Speaker, my question is also directed to the Minister for Sport. The Minister has advised the Assembly that the contract between ACTTAB and VITAB is similar to the one with the Northern Territory. However, the Northern Territory so-called contract is a two-page letter. I ask the Minister: Is the ACTTAB-VITAB contract similarly a two-page letter, and what safeguards can be provided in the space of a two-page letter?
MR BERRY: I do not think I would be disclosing anything commercial-in-confidence if I said that the contract was longer than a two-page letter.
Parkes Way - Traffic Calming
MRS GRASSBY: My question is directed to the Minister for the Environment, Land and Planning. Are there proposals for calming of traffic on Parkes Way, and does this have the support of the ACT Government?
MR WOOD: Madam Speaker, a number of people have made comments to me following an article in yesterday's Canberra Times about proposed - that is the operative word, or the inoperative word - developments at the Defence Department offices down the road. That is a long-term proposal which I guess the NCPA will bring to public view when it suits that body. I do not see any immediate action on that front. However, there is another proposal that might emerge shortly and it follows the NCPA's consideration of the Museum of Australia.
I understand that the NCPA is keen to see that museum on Acton Peninsula. It certainly has the view that Acton Peninsula is the place for a major national monument. As part of that development the NCPA has run some public processes and has suggested that there be residential development on West Basin along to Commonwealth Avenue. As part of that, because it would propose residential development across Parkes Way, access to that development and access to the lake between there and Civic would be necessary. I think also that the NCPA is concerned to build up Constitution Avenue rather than Parkes Way as the major east-west thoroughfare. However, at this stage it appears that amongst the options, and not necessarily the chosen one, would be measures to have cross-streets, or something of that nature, across Parkes Way with quite a number of traffic lights. That would have a very strong effect of slowing or calming the traffic.
Mr Kaine: It would bring it all to a dead halt, Bill.
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