Belconnen Residents Betrayed In Master Plan - Belconnen Pool DisappearsWayne Berry - Member for GinninderraMedia Statement - 12 September 2000Silence on the repeatedly promised Belconnen Pool in yesterday's much heralded launch of the Belconnen Town Centre Master Plan is a betrayal of Belconnen resident, Labor Ginninderra MLA Wayne Berry said today. "For six year we have heard Bill Stefaniak promise a pool for Belconnen, even to the extent of unspent funds appearing in the budget papers. The Master Plan exposes this government's deceit on this issue - the promised pool has gone missing. "Sod turnings and promises of a Belconnen pool have become routine for Bill Stefaniak over these six years but the Master Plan for Belconnen Town Centre exposes this Minister's contempt towards Ginninderra residents.
"Are we now to be exposed to another artificial process which leads up to the next election with no pool or will the government have the courage to admit at last that this promise has been ditched?
"In two years Labor went from the design stage to the first swim at the Tuggeranong Pool which was opened in 1993. The best Bill Stefaniak can do is a list of promises and sod turnings and a disappearing trick," Mr Berry concluded. |