Page 3611 - Week 10 - Tuesday, 25 August 2009
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a Canberra stadium master plan, a Manuka oval master plan, consultation on the proposed southern cemetery and crematorium and the Weston Park master plan.
These consultations have involved the use of displays, fact sheets, information from the TAMS website and the cemetery’s website, advertising, media releases, letterbox drops, online surveys, hard copy surveys, phone surveys, letters to peak industry groups, briefings, stakeholder interviews, information sessions and internet blogs. Round tables have also been used to discuss the issue of tourism and transport, and numerous community meetings have been held on the future of shopping centres.
As better, new technologies increase the communications options available to us, traditional methods such as submissions and public meetings are being augmented by social media such as Facebook and Twitter. The recent community consultation on a review of supermarket policy involved the use of these emergent technologies, including a video presence on Facebook to outline the nature of the review and a call for comment.
Community consultation is also undertaken as part of the formulation of the annual budget, as a means for the community to engage with the government in identifying key areas of priority. Interested community groups, organisations and individual Canberrans have been invited to share their views, suggestions and recommendations for the 2010-2011 budget. As I said earlier today, in TAMS we will begin a detailed community consultation process on budget issues within the next month. Through this consultation process, we are looking for the community’s feedback on what services they value most, suggestions in relation to revenue measures, whether they would be willing to support increased taxation or cost recovery for existing services or savings through a scale-down of services that they do not consider to be of a high priority.
MADAM ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Mrs Dunne): On the matter of public importance, Mr Seselja.
MR SESELJA (Molonglo—Leader of the Opposition) (4.23): Thank you, Madam Assistant Speaker.
Mr Stanhope: That’s outrageous, Madam Assistant Speaker.
MR SESELJA: I am not sure if Mr Stanhope is reflecting there on the chair, but it is hard—
Mr Stanhope: Well, I am reflecting on that decision. You certainly were not first on your feet, Mr Seselja, and if the—
MADAM ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Sit down, Chief Minister, and be quiet.
Mr Stanhope: There is a convention in this place that the crossbench will be accorded an opportunity by rote in relation to matters of public importance, and it is an outrageous use of the chair.
MADAM ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Mr Stanhope, you have had your opportunity to speak; you will be quiet.
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