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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1996 Week 13 Hansard (3 December) . . Page.. 4318 ..

MRS CARNELL: Mr Speaker, what I launched was the community consultation part. Lend Lease was interested in feedback on their proposed extensions. I am always very happy to launch community consultation approaches when entities like Lend Lease are interested in community input. I would do that again. I will do that for any organisation that is interested in finding out what the community thinks.

MR MOORE: I have a supplementary question, Mr Speaker. Chief Minister, would it be fair to say that such a consultation process should take into account whether somebody else might like to develop that lease, and whether or not the best interests of the Territory would be served by the auction of such a lease, rather than effectively suggesting that it belongs to a particular group such as Lend Lease? In fact, it is assigned to them for a 20-year car parking lease.

MRS CARNELL: Mr Speaker, Lend Lease was asking its shoppers and the people of Canberra what they thought of a particular planning approach that they were looking at taking. I understand that there is a commercial disagreement between two very large companies with cross shares in each other and all sorts of difficulties at that level. I believe very strongly, though, that to have community input to any proposal put forward by either side would be an appropriate approach.

MR WOOD: Mr Speaker, my question is to Mr De Domenico as Minister for Urban Services. Following my question last week concerning shattered road signs, I refer to other visual eyesores in Tuggeranong and, indeed, all of Canberra. This is the graffiti which defaces underpasses and bus shelters around the place. Minister, when will your program move on to cleaning up those areas? Secondly, does the Government take responsibility for cleaning graffiti off private premises even though that graffiti is very public?

MR DE DOMENICO: I thank Mr Wood for his question. Mr Wood would be aware of the extensive graffiti removal strategy program. Mr Speaker, you were at the one at Woden a couple of weeks ago which was very successful. As you would be aware, most people wear gloves and even goggles when they are using things other than water to clean off graffiti. Some even use goggles when they are using water, Mr Speaker. Mr Wood, it is the intention of the Government - it is to happen, I think, very early in the new year - to do Tuggeranong in one of the graffiti clean-up days. In relation to the - - -

Mr Wood: The bus shelters and underpasses?

MR DE DOMENICO: Yes, bus shelters and underpasses. Mr Wood, we recently repainted many of the bus shelters, only to find that 24 hours or 48 hours later the graffiti was back on again before we got the chance of putting on - - -

Ms Reilly: Maybe you should look at why there is graffiti. Why do you not look at the cause instead of the symptom?

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