Page 3896 - Week 09 - Wednesday, 25 August 2010
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89 shopping centres? What do you say to them? What do you say to them? What is your process for excluding the rest of them? What is your process for saying, “Yes, Kambah received $1.4 million in 2002-03; seven years later we want to repeat it”? What are you going to say?
Mr Doszpot: Ask the community, Jon. What would the community want—an arboretum or shopping centres?
MR STANHOPE: What are you going to say to all those other shopping centres that still have not actually received any investment? Are they going to say, “Kambah gets another million dollars and we get nothing. It gets another million dollars on top of the $1.4 million it has had and you get nothing.”
Mr Doszpot: It is a memorial to Jon Stanhope. The arboretum gets most of the—
MR STANHOPE: We would be asked to explain that to them.
MR ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Mr Doszpot, Mr Coe is on a warning. Do you want to make it two? Keep it down.
MR STANHOPE: But there is an alternative here which we should be focusing on and that is the work that is currently underway as a result of interest expressed by the owner of the Woolworths store to extend. The government is currently dealing with a potential direct grant of land for an expanded Woolworths on this particular site. That possibility does present enormous opportunities to achieve some of the outcomes that Mr Smyth is proposing. Hence the amendment which I have circulated and which I will now take the opportunity to move. This amendment focuses very much on the opportunities presented by the fact that work has been signalled if a direct grant application—
MR ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Stop the clocks, please. Just by point of clarification, Chief Minister, was it your intention to amend Mr Smyth’s motion or Ms Le Couteur’s foreshadowed motion?
MR STANHOPE: I thought my amendment had been circulated. My amendment is to Mr Smyth’s motion.
MR ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Okay.
Mr Smyth: Then where is it?
Mrs Dunne: It hasn’t been circulated.
MR STANHOPE: I will have to find it and circulate it. I do not know where it is. I thought that had been done. I beg your pardon.
Mr Doszpot: It is like the shopping centres.
MR ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Mr Doszpot, please. Mr Stanhope, perhaps you might like to do something in the next two minutes, 37 seconds.
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