Page 1345 - Week 04 - Wednesday, 25 March 2009
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Ms Porter: It is not an ACTPLA matter, not this one.
MS LE COUTEUR: Okay.
Ms Bresnan: Just keep going.
MS LE COUTEUR: Yes, I will keep going. The point that the Greens would like to put forward is that what we need to do is stand back from the local problems and have neighbourhood planning so that even—
Mr Hanson: If that is in the agreement, why is that not happening?
MS LE COUTEUR: I am hopeful that it will happen. The second comment I would like to make on Mr Coe’s original motion is that this Assembly has many skills but road traffic engineering is probably not one of them; so I do not feel that the original motion was supportable, because it was simply far too proscriptive. However, as I understand the amended motion, I will be happy to support this. Obviously the Greens are in favour of community consultation and, given that we understand the meeting will be happening and we understand that there clearly is a problem with the car park, we look forward to a positive resolution of the situation.
MRS DUNNE (Ginninderra) (5.15): I am pleased that Ms Porter managed to struggle up and speak on this constituent issue. I suppose she was embarrassed after the Hawker experience where she had to go on radio and justify why she did not need to speak on the Hawker matter. Of course, the thing was that she said, “People do not need me to speak on that because they know what a good job I do.”
MADAM ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Ms Burch): Mrs Dunne, are we talking to the amendment and Nicholls?
MRS DUNNE: And on Mr Coe’s amendment in relation to the Flynn shops. Ms Porter managed to struggle to her feet, because obviously she realised that people in Nicholls may not realise that she is the self-styled Saint Joan of Ginninderra or perhaps the Maid Marion of Ginninderra, who is always out there fighting the gutsy little fight for constituents. Ms Porter has been actually sussed out by the community because they know that what she does—and it has been revealed—is that Ms Porter puts out press releases about events that she attended before she attended, and of course she—
Ms Porter: That was embargoed, Mrs Dunne.
MRS DUNNE: They are embargoed. “I embargoed the fact that I put out a press release about an event that did not happen.” The event did not happen but Ms Porter was there telling everybody, on an embargoed basis, so it is all right. It was all right to embargo the fact of how much you enjoyed handing out prizes that were not handed out. And this is the thing that happens all the time. Ms Porter likes to have a few things to say. She likes to talk about the “charny carny” so that she can put out a community newsletter about her words.
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