Page 3440 - Week 08 - Wednesday, 17 August 2011
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Therefore what hope is there of genuine modal shift? It seems to me like more hypocrisy from the Greens.
We also heard from Mr Corbell and Dr Bourke. They had the old good cop, bad cop regime. You had Mr Corbell sprouting the true left wing ideology and then you had Dr Bourke come in and talk about car parks, trying to appeal to his electorate. I am afraid it does not work like that. The fact is that Dr Bourke has signed up to the Labor ideology. He has signed up to a parking strategy which wants to see parking stations and parking places removed from the ACT.
Let us look at Mr Corbell’s amendment about managing parking demand, with a parking pricing and management regime to encourage greater use of sustainable transit modes and a parking offset fund. These things are all about control. They are all about the government imposing their will on the lives of Canberrans. This is good old classic Labor stuff—all about restricting the freedoms that Canberrans enjoy.
Let us also look at what the Greens are proposing. Instead of having minimum car parking requirements, they want maximums—maximums for developments. They want a sustainable transport contributions fund—yet another tax. That is what they want—yet another tax. They will not deviate from their ideology that governments are better at spending money than individuals are. It is to that end that they want to take more and more money from Canberra households so they can divvy it up as they see fit, as they so wish—so they can divvy it up according to their own ideology.
Members interjecting—
MR SPEAKER: Members, order! One moment, Mr Coe, please. Stop the clocks, thank you. There is a lot of noise in the chamber. Mr Hargreaves and Mr Smyth, could you perhaps continue the conversation outside. I am having trouble hearing Mr Coe. Mr Coe, you have the floor.
MR COE: I do call upon the government to address the chronic shortages that we have in car parking in so many parts of the city. As I said earlier, in my electorate there are shortages in Belconnen, Jamison, Kippax, Charnwood and Nicholls. And across the ACT there are many other places, including in Ginninderra. This government needs to address it.
The plan is now four years, three months and 10 days old in draft form. It is time for a strategic approach to the car parking needs of our community. I urge the Assembly to vote in favour of providing adequate car parking for the people of Canberra.
Question put:
That Mr Coe’s motion be agreed to.
The Assembly voted—
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