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for any incoming Member of the ACT Legislative Assembly than ensuring more young children have access to play based early learning
I look forward to your support. I look forward to your support for this important motion today, Mr Steel. I know you have said there could not be a more important task. I know that you will be supporting my motion. I look forward to your doing that because you will not support some weasel words coming forward from the Greens that would water it down. You have said in writing to the community that there could not be a more important task for an MLA.
You have said that you look forward to continuing to work with Elizabeth Hoyt who has done all this hard work on the project. Mr Assistant Speaker, I think it is fantastic that you support this proposal and that you will be supporting it today, as will Ms Cody. Sadly, she is not here for this debate, but she has said a lot. She has said:
Playgrounds are an important part of family life in Canberra. They encourage outdoor recreational leisure time and social connection for children …
I ask members to note that she has said:
There is widespread support for this community led-initiative and I fully endorse the effort the community has gone to in presenting their need for new playground infrastructure to government.
We will see whether she fully endorses it today. We will see whether she fully endorses it or does not quite fully endorse it. We will see whether there is a difference between what is being said to the community by members and what then is put forward in this place. I have a quote from Ms Le Couteur as well:
The community and local shops would really benefit from a playground and improved local facilities and I would really love to see kids playing at the shops all the time.
I applaud the Waramanga community’s push for a playground at the Waramanga shops and congratulate them on their outstanding effort.
As we know, Ms Le Couteur, as late as yesterday, was saying that this should be progressed at the Waramanga shops by the end of 2018. I assume that you will be supporting my motion as well, Ms Le Couteur, and that we will not have a watering down of that motion.
Mr Assistant Speaker, forgive my cynicism but what has been happening here, sadly, is that three members have been saying one thing to the community. They have been promising the world. They have been saying that they fully endorse it; that there can be no greater job for an MLA; that it needs to be completed by 2018.
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