Page 67 - Week 01 - Tuesday, 11 February 2020
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ACT’s efforts to reduce the territory’s impact on our climate. We will also continue to work towards our target of zero net emissions by 2045, which is, I note, a significant and nation-leading target amongst Australian states and territories.
Minister Rattenbury will also continue to implement our ACT zero emissions vehicles action plan, which will see our passenger vehicle fleet transition to zero emissions. We already have 51 such vehicles in the ACT government fleet and this year we will add a further 29, bringing the total fleet to 80 and meeting our target of 50 per cent newly leased passenger vehicles for the ACT government being zero emissions.
The work I have outlined today is, of course, only a small part of the work underway across all areas of government to fulfil our commitment to Canberrans. As we know, 2020 is a year in which Canberrans will be asked to make a choice about our city’s direction for the first half of this coming decade. Canberra’s success will be determined by the decisions and actions we take this year.
For our part, we are committed to investing in and growing our services and infrastructure to ensure that they continue to meet the community’s expectations and needs. This means access to health care when and where you need it, access to a great local school close to where you live and access to a fast and efficient public transport network. By making these investments today, we will ensure that our hospitals, healthcare centres and schools, our city’s social infrastructure and our city’s transport network are ready for the decade ahead—a decade where Canberra’s population will reach over half a million people.
In conclusion, now is not the time to send our city backwards. Our growing city needs new and better public infrastructure. Our community expects world-class public services and we need good, secure jobs in the future. The government is committed to delivering just that. I present a copy of the statement:
Government priorities—Ministerial statement, 11 February 2020.
I move:
That the Assembly take note of the paper.
MR COE (Yerrabi—Leader of the Opposition) (3.48): After 19 years of Labor, what more can we expect from this government? I firmly believe that Canberra is the best place in Australia—indeed, it is the best place in the world—and Canberra is too good for a bad government. In this election year, Canberrans can expect more undelivered Labor promises; more taxes, rates, fees and charges; taxpayers paying for government political advertising, and of course record spin and dirty tricks.
Labor has the wrong priorities for the ACT. Canberra is too good for a bad government. At the moment, so many people are struggling with the cost of living in this city and it is because of their taxes, their rates, their fees and their charges. Labor has had every single opportunity to make Canberra an affordable place and it has failed at every single moment. We have the worst hospital waiting times in the
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