Dr LIM - 2007-04-19
Despite rejecting the idea of CCTV security cameras in and around Todd Mall for months, you announced, after the demonstration on Tuesday, that you will provide the funding. Will you know support our call, and that of Advance Alice, to ensure that funding will also include real time monitoring of CCTV? If not, why not?
ANSWER
Madam Speaker, the member for Greatorex’s question manages to turn a good initiative for Alice Springs into a whinge. I do not know how he does it.
The Alice Springs Town Council wanted to have closed circuit television for the mall which was certainly a responsibility of a good town council. They went to the federal government and said: ‘Can you share the funding of this with us?’ The federal government was not overly enthusiastic about doing that. The council had allocated $100 000, and they wanted $150 000 for the equipment from the federal government. This week, the Territory government has said we will do it - nothing is coming from Canberra, we will do it. Yet, you get from the member for Greatorex not, ‘This is great, we are going to see it happen’, but a whinge about how it is going to operate. The operation of that is a matter for the town council. We will work cooperatively with them. Those decisions have not yet been made, but three cheers for CCTV.
ANSWER
Madam Speaker, the member for Greatorex’s question manages to turn a good initiative for Alice Springs into a whinge. I do not know how he does it.
The Alice Springs Town Council wanted to have closed circuit television for the mall which was certainly a responsibility of a good town council. They went to the federal government and said: ‘Can you share the funding of this with us?’ The federal government was not overly enthusiastic about doing that. The council had allocated $100 000, and they wanted $150 000 for the equipment from the federal government. This week, the Territory government has said we will do it - nothing is coming from Canberra, we will do it. Yet, you get from the member for Greatorex not, ‘This is great, we are going to see it happen’, but a whinge about how it is going to operate. The operation of that is a matter for the town council. We will work cooperatively with them. Those decisions have not yet been made, but three cheers for CCTV.
Last updated: 09 Aug 2016