Page 2753 - Week 07 - Tuesday, 28 June 2011
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thing that spins on the ground and I think you can almost imagine the squeals of happy children, squealing as they go around and around.
Mr Hanson: Is this an adjournment speech; have we gone to adjournment?
DR BOURKE: I am congratulating the government on an initiative in the budget—playgrounds, TAMS. But there is not just the speed gyro; there is also a double swing and a diablo play unit.
Mr Hanson: What is that?
DR BOURKE: There is a picture here; it is on the website. You can look it up, it is all there. So, once again, I congratulate the government.
MR HANSON (Molonglo) (10.18): I would like to make comments in this budget item on two issues. One is the planned changes to Streeton Drive, and the other is the new toilets proposed for the Campbell shops. These are two issues that are small, but I think they are important and I am glad that the government is delivering on them—although I will wait to see what they deliver and when before I pass a final judgment; probably not with the same enthusiasm that Dr Bourke has, because both of these issues have taken a significant amount of effort from the community and from the opposition to actually motivate the government to do anything about them.
The first issue is Streeton Drive south of Hindmarsh, where the community in that place, led by Nick Van Den Berg, had been concerned with the speed at which traffic has been moving down that road. It is a residential street and the speed limit is supposed to be 60 kilometres an hour but many vehicles have sped along there at significantly greater speeds, and for several years Nick and other members of the community have been trying to get the government to put some measures in place on that road to prevent traffic from speeding. It has been a hard fought battle and I would like to thank Mr Coe for the support that he has provided my office as well.
We have put that representation to the government, and there is a line item in the budget, “Implementation of road and traffic management improvements on Streeton Drive, Weston.” So I, and the community, eagerly await what the government will be doing there, but I do think that that is a good measure and we will just wait to see what the detail is.
The other issue that I want to speak about is toilets at the Campbell shops. This issue first came to my attention as a candidate in 2008 at the Campbell shops, where I was approached by many people, particularly elderly people, who were concerned that they would like to walk to those shops, which they do to get their daily exercise, and walk home. But the issue of not having a public toilet was a real concern to them because the time that they were away from home for many elderly people meant that they then did not have access to toilet facilities.
The owners of Hello Cafe, Barney and Ruby De Andrade, have also raised their concerns. They very generously allow many people in the community to use the toilet facilities in their cafe, but of course that causes them significant inconvenience and
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