Page 2183 - Week 07 - Thursday, 27 August 2020
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For five months, Event AV Services have covered the base costs of 65 acts, including musicians and actors, for 32 live-streamed shows. Over 250 individual artists have benefited from Live in Ya Lounge; but they can no longer do it without support. At last count, the change.org petition in the same terms attracted over 600 signatures, so it is evident that Canberrans want to support local artists and enterprise.
On that basis, Madam Speaker, I seek leave to table the out-of-order petition.
Leave granted.
MS LEE: I table the following out-of-order petition:
Petition which does not conform with the standing orders—Live In Ya Lounge—Financial support.
Madam Speaker, this government claims to support the arts. It is time to show it by listening to the petitioners and walking the walk. I know that Mrs Dunne will also be speaking on this.
The last petition is from over 1,000 concerned Canberrans who have been stalled, and stalled again, on what might eventually be built on the old Shell site in Fyshwick. The government took three years to consider the EIS, and the project has changed, giving rise to uncertainty and suspicion within the community about what might actually go there.
Whilst the paper petition has only 12 signatures, the e-petition version has garnered over 1,000 signatures. My constituents want the government to say what it will do and do what it will say.
This government wants to be known as a national, if not world, leader in waste management. We have lots of glossy publications saying so; there is a government waste management strategy; and there is an identified waste management hub. It is not unreasonable to expect a government to follow its own policy blueprint, but it has not and does not. This issue will live on longer than this government and this Assembly. The community wants and deserves answers.
In each of these petitions the community are speaking. They deserve to be listened to, they deserve to be taken seriously, and they deserve action.
Arts—Live in Ya Lounge—petition 21-20
MR RAMSAY (Ginninderra—Attorney-General, Minister for the Arts, Creative Industries and Cultural Events, Minister for Building Quality Improvement, Minister for Business and Regulatory Services and Minister for Seniors and Veterans) (9.49): I want to provide some context in relation to the Live in Ya Lounge petition.
The Canberra events industry has been hit very hard by COVID-19, which is why the government has been strong and quick in its response both to the arts and the broader
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