Mr MILLS - 2004-11-30
You have just confirmed that 11 buildings on your advertisement represent 10% of all the buildings in the waterfront development. Can you now confirm that there are 99 buildings that do not rise above the escarpment?
ANSWER
Madam Speaker, what I cannot understand is what the Opposition Leader is trying to achieve here.
Members interjecting.
Ms MARTIN: No, no. The Opposition Leader is trying to bag the project. He is saying to our Winnellie businesses, our subbies, for the next decade around Darwin, that the opposition does not support the redevelopment of the waterfront. The Opposition Leader came in here and said: ‘We were going to do it when we were in government. We had an idea; we never had more than an idea. Why aren’t you doing ours?’ This is a really childish and immature approach.
You had ideas, they came to nothing. We went through a new process, with a new concept, and this is what is out there for public consultation. Every building on the waterfront will go through a development application process - the proper, statutory process. I say again: every building on the waterfront will go through that development application process.
Ms Carter: A new scheme.
Ms MARTIN: We have a new scheme, and we have a development application process. This is a preferred tenderer proposal. We have continuing discussions to go through the complexities. What is agreed through the development application process and these discussions with the developer, Darwin Cove, will then be part of the contract at the end. The details of that will be publicly known - the taxpayers’ dollars, the return to government will be known.
It is a very exciting project. Builders, subbies and businesses in Darwin all embrace this project. The only ones who are nitpicking and pretending that, somehow, government is not telling the truth about it is the opposition - and they are wrong.
ANSWER
Madam Speaker, what I cannot understand is what the Opposition Leader is trying to achieve here.
Members interjecting.
Ms MARTIN: No, no. The Opposition Leader is trying to bag the project. He is saying to our Winnellie businesses, our subbies, for the next decade around Darwin, that the opposition does not support the redevelopment of the waterfront. The Opposition Leader came in here and said: ‘We were going to do it when we were in government. We had an idea; we never had more than an idea. Why aren’t you doing ours?’ This is a really childish and immature approach.
You had ideas, they came to nothing. We went through a new process, with a new concept, and this is what is out there for public consultation. Every building on the waterfront will go through a development application process - the proper, statutory process. I say again: every building on the waterfront will go through that development application process.
Ms Carter: A new scheme.
Ms MARTIN: We have a new scheme, and we have a development application process. This is a preferred tenderer proposal. We have continuing discussions to go through the complexities. What is agreed through the development application process and these discussions with the developer, Darwin Cove, will then be part of the contract at the end. The details of that will be publicly known - the taxpayers’ dollars, the return to government will be known.
It is a very exciting project. Builders, subbies and businesses in Darwin all embrace this project. The only ones who are nitpicking and pretending that, somehow, government is not telling the truth about it is the opposition - and they are wrong.
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