Page 581 - Week 02 - Wednesday, 22 February 2012

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I look forward to seeing this statement turned into practical realties of dollars, actually doing it.

Point (d), as I pointed out before, that the dirty MRF is best in terms of overall greenhouse gas emissions, is not true if you look at 2021. Yes, he is correct that the report shows that the garden-food bin and the organic-food bin scenarios are expensive options. And that is true. This is the reason why the Greens are not putting the organic-food bin forward as the first option. This is why the Greens are saying, “Look at the option which appears to be the most desirable.” If you look to 2021, it basically costs exactly the same as business as usual. It is in fact $20,000 a year cheaper. With the limits of what we are doing, that is the same. From an environmental point of view, it is better.

It is beyond me why the government is not supporting what I think is the clear conclusion of the Hyder report, that a strong, aggressive education program has the potential to have the best outcome for waste in Canberra. Give education a go. I think that the government is selling the capabilities of ACT residents short. We can do better than the government thinks. We can change. The Hyder report’s education program would be the way to make this happen.

Question put:

That Mr Corbell’s amendments be agreed to.

The Assembly voted—

Ayes 7		Noes 10
Mr Barr	Mr Hargreaves	Ms Bresnan	Ms Hunter
Dr Bourke	Ms Porter	Mr Coe	Ms Le Couteur
Ms Burch		Mr Doszpot	Mr Rattenbury
Mr Corbell		Mrs Dunne	Mr Seselja
Ms Gallagher		Mr Hanson	Mr Smyth

Question so resolved in the negative.

MR COE (Ginninderra) (11.28), by leave: I move:

In subparagraph (2)(d), after “organics collection bin”, insert “as proposed by the Canberra Liberals in 2008,”.

As I have already articulated, this was indeed part of the election policy that the Liberals took to the 2008 election, that being a third bin, a green bin, for Canberrans. And if the Greens had made a wiser choice in 2008 and actually been true to their convictions when it comes to issues like waste and the environment, this motion today would be redundant. Everybody would have their third bin. The waste to landfill would be going down and indeed Canberra would be a better place to live. So I happily move this amendment that in (2)(d) after “organics collection bin” we insert “as proposed by the Canberra Liberals in 2008”.

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