Page 1478 - Week 05 - Thursday, 12 May 1994
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Kippax Centre
MR BERRY: My question is to another member of the leading Labor team.
Mr Humphries: I raise a point of order, Madam Speaker. Mr Berry has asked a question already in this question time. Mr Stevenson has risen and has not had a question yet. Other members on this side of the chamber have not had a question either.
MADAM SPEAKER: Let me read out to you the order in which members have had a question, and how many Liberal members, Labor members and Independent members have had a question. Mrs Carnell, Liberal, No. 1; Mr Berry, Labor, No. 2; Mr De Domenico, Liberal, second question; Ms Szuty, third question, with a fourth question along the way. Then Mr Kaine, Ms Ellis and Mr Humphries. If you add that up, the distribution is quite fair. Both Mr Moore and Ms Szuty have had a question. I distribute questions evenly across the chamber.
Mr Kaine: And Mr Berry is getting a second one.
MADAM SPEAKER: If Mr Berry chooses to stand instead of Mrs Grassby, it is Mr Berry's choice. We will have order. Mr Berry will continue asking his question.
MR BERRY: Again, I direct my question to another member of the leading Labor team, the Minister for the Environment, Land and Planning, Mr Wood. Is the Minister aware of some concerns that have been raised by Belconnen residents, and in particular by the Belconnen Community Council, regarding the Kippax Centre? Can he inform us of any action he might be taking?
MR WOOD: Madam Speaker, to the extent that there are concerns, they have been well expressed to me by Mr Berry and Mrs Grassby, who have been active in communicating with people in that area. There has been some comment about community facilities around the Kippax Centre. That comment was prompted because there was a proposal for residential development coming to fruition. I must say that I had not had that comment before that residential development was announced and made clear. I do not know how real some of that concern has been. In some measure it is due to anxiety about residential development rather than concern for community facilities. Nevertheless, Mr Berry and Mrs Grassby have been raising these issues with me and have expressed the view that, with development now at West Belconnen, it is appropriate to look at the extent of community facilities generally in that distant area of Belconnen. The new suburbs will certainly have an impact - I think a productive impact - on the Kippax Centre. They will provide more trade to that area - something that the shopkeepers there have long been seeking.
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