Page 1646 - Week 05 - Wednesday, 9 May 2018
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(c) operating nurse-led walk-in centres in Belconnen and Tuggeranong which saw 36 785 patients seen in 2016-17, opening a walk-in centre in Gungahlin in 2018, undertaking design work to construct a walk-in centre in the Weston Creek region, and planning for a health centre in the Inner North this parliamentary term, as well as delivering more hospital and health services;
(d) improving freight and passenger connections around Australia securing daily international flights;
(e) delivering more aged friendly suburbs by improving accessibility for residents of Ainslie, Weston, Kaleen, Monash, Page and Hughes;
(f) building an integrated public transport network for our growing city, including commencement of Light Rail Stage 1, planning for Stage 2 to Woden, and delivering five new Rapid services and more buses more often;
(g) improving local public schools with more than $85 million worth of works underway to upgrade and improve teaching and learning spaces at schools across the city, and plan and build new schools for the future; and
(h) keeping Canberra safe as the city grows, through support for the emergency services, including personnel, equipment and infrastructure; and
(3) calls on the Government to continue to invest in expanding our core community, social, health, education, emergency services and transport services to cater to a growing and thriving city, for the benefit of its residents and visitors.
When I ask myself how well this government, or any government, is going, I look at how it is going in delivering secure jobs, quality services and the egalitarian society we strive for. Doing all those things, of course, requires a strong economy.
Members interjecting—
MADAM SPEAKER: Ms Cody, just a minute. Members, please! Ms Cody, continue.
MS CODY: Thank you. I was finding it hard to hear myself. Doing all those things, of course, requires a strong economy. When I look around the Australian Capital Territory I see a lot of challenges being met—met with competence, compassion and real leadership. As an ACT government, there are many things we cannot control. We cannot control immigration. We cannot control the fact that the opposition continue to speak during my speeches. But we do have a choice about how we welcome the 7,000 new Canberrans arriving every year.
We cannot regulate or tax our biggest industry, the commonwealth public service, but we do have the choice of building the transport, health and education services to ensure every local family has a good quality of life. Likewise with the planning decisions that left us with our—how would the ABC put it?—curious infrastructure legacy, we have a choice about how we adapt it to our future as a larger city.
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