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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 8 Hansard (28 August) . . Page.. 2574 ..

MS REILLY:

The petition read as follows:

To the Speaker and Members of the Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory:

The petition of certain residents of the Australian Capital Territory draws to the attention of the Assembly:

That the Curtin Shopping Precinct is in need of an upgrade of its public amenities and public spaces as they are in a condition that is of concern to public safety.

That the Curtin Shopping Precinct has missed out on any funding through the ACT Government's Precinct Management capital works program.

Your petitioners therefore request the Assembly to:

Immediately undertake a consultative process with the community and Traders of the Curtin Shopping Precinct into concerns relating to the Curtin Shopping Precinct's public amenities and public spaces.

Petitions received.

MS REILLY (10.32): Pursuant to standing order 99, I move:

That the petition on the Curtin Shopping Precinct be referred to the Standing Committee on Planning and Environment.

I am taking this action to refer this petition, which has over 1,300 signatures, to the Planning and Environment Committee to try to get some action to assist both users and customers of the Curtin shopping centre and also the traders at the centre. The Curtin traders approached me earlier this year about issues to do with upgrading the centre. The centre is now 30 years old. In fact, it was one of the early centres of this type built in the ACT. I can remember visiting it at the beginning of 1969, when it was opened; and it was seen as a great advance in shopping styles at that time.

For those of you who are not familiar with this shopping centre, it has a large supermarket and a number of other shops around a square. It has quite a variety of shops and, in most cases, has stayed fully tenanted throughout the years. If you visited the shopping centre in the morning or at any other time during the day, you would be amazed at how many people use it. It is a group centre in the terms that we use in the ACT. It is used by

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