❓ The WA parliament questions the Howard government's decision to approve a new brickworks on Perth Airport land, highlighting community opposition and potential environmental impacts. The minister accuses the federal government of hypocrisy and unfairness.
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BRICKWORKS - PERTH AIRPORT LAND
On behalf of many concerned and angry residents in the eastern suburbs, I ask the minister to outline the consequences of the Howard government’s decision to approve a new brickworks on Perth Airport land? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN
On behalf of many concerned and angry residents in the eastern suburbs, I ask the minister to outline the consequences of the Howard government’s decision to approve a new brickworks on Perth Airport land? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN
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I thank the member for her question. I acknowledge that both the member for Midland and the member for Swan Hills have been very active advocates for their communities. The very first consequence of this decision will be a lot of community anger and concern about the hypocrisy of the federal government. Senator Campbell, the environment minister and the man who wields all the power in the Liberal Party, took a position about the Denmark wind farm and about wind farms generally that, indeed, they should not be approved if there was any community opposition. I will quote something said by Senator Campbell, the man who gave the brickworks the environmental tick. When in his prospective electorate of Denmark, Senator Campbell said - . . . that state governments are riding roughshod over local communities, imposing wind farms on them against their clearly expressed wishes. He goes on to quote some figures, which are not quite right. He further said - . . . 130 of the 183 submissions on the wind farm opposed it. The shire council voted 8-4 against the wind farm. This is about as emphatic a “no” as one could get, yet the Western Australian Government believes community concern about wind farms is not important. Let us have a look at what happened in the eastern suburbs. The City of Belmont voted 100 per cent against the brickworks, and the City of Swan voted 100 per cent against it. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Nedlands and the Leader of the National Party to order for the first time. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : The Town of Bassendean voted seven to one. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Nedlands to order for the second time. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : If eight to four is an emphatic no, this is no plus, plus, plus. There will be a great deal of anger among the people who are concerned about this issue. It is not that this particular brickworks is worse than any other brickworks. It is about putting a fourth, and arguably a fifth, brickworks into a single airshed - that is the concern. It is not that Mr Buckeridge’s brickworks are being targeted. It is the appropriateness of allowing another brickworks in an area in which we are trying to improve the air quality. The community will also be very angry - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Nedlands and the member for Roe to order. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We are quite happy to return Sunset Hospital to what it was before the Court government closed it down, and that was a home for men with drinking problems. I am sure the member for Nedlands would support its going back to its traditional use. The community will also be very angry when it knows that its local federal member, Mr Stuart Henry - who has, admittedly, been trying, without effect, to get this decision changed - is saying that the problem is that the state government has not offered any other sites. That is completely untrue. Mr J.N. Hyde : Sunset! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : That is a good idea. Mr Buckeridge was very keen at one stage on building this plant at Forrestdale. The local mayor, Linton Reynolds, said that he would support that industrially zoned land being used. I said to Mr Buckeridge that I would work through a community consultation process for him to make sure that we could address the community concerns. Both the mayor and I said that we would work with the community to deliver this. However, Mr Buckeridge’s response to us was, “No, I don’t want to do that now because I’ve been told that if I go out to the airport, I won’t have to worry about these environmental issues, and unless you can say to me that I don’t have to get an environmental approval at Forrestdale, I’ll go for the airport land.” This is a disgraceful decision. It is one that is most unfair to that community in the eastern suburbs, and the federal government will pay for it.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN replied: I thank the member for her question. I acknowledge that both the member for Midland and the member for Swan Hills have been very active advocates for their communities. The very first consequence of this decision will be a lot of community anger and concern about the hypocrisy of the federal government. Senator Campbell, the environment minister and the man who wields all the power in the Liberal Party, took a position about the Denmark wind farm and about wind farms generally that, indeed, they should not be approved if there was any community opposition. I will quote something said by Senator Campbell, the man who gave the brickworks the environmental tick. When in his prospective electorate of Denmark, Senator Campbell said - . . . that state governments are riding roughshod over local communities, imposing wind farms on them against their clearly expressed wishes. He goes on to quote some figures, which are not quite right. He further said - . . . 130 of the 183 submissions on the wind farm opposed it. The shire council voted 8-4 against the wind farm. This is about as emphatic a “no” as one could get, yet the Western Australian Government believes community concern about wind farms is not important. Let us have a look at what happened in the eastern suburbs. The City of Belmont voted 100 per cent against the brickworks, and the City of Swan voted 100 per cent against it. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Nedlands and the Leader of the National Party to order for the first time. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : The Town of Bassendean voted seven to one. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Nedlands to order for the second time. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : If eight to four is an emphatic no, this is no plus, plus, plus. There will be a great deal of anger among the people who are concerned about this issue. It is not that this particular brickworks is worse than any other brickworks. It is about putting a fourth, and arguably a fifth, brickworks into a single airshed - that is the concern. It is not that Mr Buckeridge’s brickworks are being targeted. It is the appropriateness of allowing another brickworks in an area in which we are trying to improve the air quality. The community will also be very angry - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Nedlands and the member for Roe to order. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We are quite happy to return Sunset Hospital to what it was before the Court government closed it down, and that was a home for men with drinking problems. I am sure the member for Nedlands would support its going back to its traditional use. The community will also be very angry when it knows that its local federal member, Mr Stuart Henry - who has, admittedly, been trying, without effect, to get this decision changed - is saying that the problem is that the state government has not offered any other sites. That is completely untrue. Mr J.N. Hyde : Sunset! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : That is a good idea. Mr Buckeridge was very keen at one stage on building this plant at Forrestdale. The local mayor, Linton Reynolds, said that he would support that industrially zoned land being used. I said to Mr Buckeridge that I would work through a community consultation process for him to make sure that we could address the community concerns. Both the mayor and I said that we would work with the community to deliver this. However, Mr Buckeridge’s response to us was, “No, I don’t want to do that now because I’ve been told that if I go out to the airport, I won’t have to worry about these environmental issues, and unless you can say to me that I don’t have to get an environmental approval at Forrestdale, I’ll go for the airport land.” This is a disgraceful decision. It is one that is most unfair to that community in the eastern suburbs, and the federal government will pay for it.
I thank the member for her question. I acknowledge that both the member for Midland and the member for Swan Hills have been very active advocates for their communities. The very first consequence of this decision will be a lot of community anger and concern about the hypocrisy of the federal government. Senator Campbell, the environment minister and the man who wields all the power in the Liberal Party, took a position about the Denmark wind farm and about wind farms generally that, indeed, they should not be approved if there was any community opposition. I will quote something said by Senator Campbell, the man who gave the brickworks the environmental tick. When in his prospective electorate of Denmark, Senator Campbell said - . . . that state governments are riding roughshod over local communities, imposing wind farms on them against their clearly expressed wishes. He goes on to quote some figures, which are not quite right. He further said - . . . 130 of the 183 submissions on the wind farm opposed it. The shire council voted 8-4 against the wind farm. This is about as emphatic a “no” as one could get, yet the Western Australian Government believes community concern about wind farms is not important. Let us have a look at what happened in the eastern suburbs. The City of Belmont voted 100 per cent against the brickworks, and the City of Swan voted 100 per cent against it. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Nedlands and the Leader of the National Party to order for the first time. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : The Town of Bassendean voted seven to one. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Nedlands to order for the second time. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : If eight to four is an emphatic no, this is no plus, plus, plus. There will be a great deal of anger among the people who are concerned about this issue. It is not that this particular brickworks is worse than any other brickworks. It is about putting a fourth, and arguably a fifth, brickworks into a single airshed - that is the concern. It is not that Mr Buckeridge’s brickworks are being targeted. It is the appropriateness of allowing another brickworks in an area in which we are trying to improve the air quality. The community will also be very angry - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Nedlands and the member for Roe to order. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We are quite happy to return Sunset Hospital to what it was before the Court government closed it down, and that was a home for men with drinking problems. I am sure the member for Nedlands would support its going back to its traditional use. The community will also be very angry when it knows that its local federal member, Mr Stuart Henry - who has, admittedly, been trying, without effect, to get this decision changed - is saying that the problem is that the state government has not offered any other sites. That is completely untrue. Mr J.N. Hyde : Sunset! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : That is a good idea. Mr Buckeridge was very keen at one stage on building this plant at Forrestdale. The local mayor, Linton Reynolds, said that he would support that industrially zoned land being used. I said to Mr Buckeridge that I would work through a community consultation process for him to make sure that we could address the community concerns. Both the mayor and I said that we would work with the community to deliver this. However, Mr Buckeridge’s response to us was, “No, I don’t want to do that now because I’ve been told that if I go out to the airport, I won’t have to worry about these environmental issues, and unless you can say to me that I don’t have to get an environmental approval at Forrestdale, I’ll go for the airport land.” This is a disgraceful decision. It is one that is most unfair to that community in the eastern suburbs, and the federal government will pay for it.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Nedlands and the Leader of the National Party to order for the first time. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : The Town of Bassendean voted seven to one. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Nedlands to order for the second time. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : If eight to four is an emphatic no, this is no plus, plus, plus. There will be a great deal of anger among the people who are concerned about this issue. It is not that this particular brickworks is worse than any other brickworks. It is about putting a fourth, and arguably a fifth, brickworks into a single airshed - that is the concern. It is not that Mr Buckeridge’s brickworks are being targeted. It is the appropriateness of allowing another brickworks in an area in which we are trying to improve the air quality. The community will also be very angry - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Nedlands and the member for Roe to order. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We are quite happy to return Sunset Hospital to what it was before the Court government closed it down, and that was a home for men with drinking problems. I am sure the member for Nedlands would support its going back to its traditional use. The community will also be very angry when it knows that its local federal member, Mr Stuart Henry - who has, admittedly, been trying, without effect, to get this decision changed - is saying that the problem is that the state government has not offered any other sites. That is completely untrue. Mr J.N. Hyde : Sunset! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : That is a good idea. Mr Buckeridge was very keen at one stage on building this plant at Forrestdale. The local mayor, Linton Reynolds, said that he would support that industrially zoned land being used. I said to Mr Buckeridge that I would work through a community consultation process for him to make sure that we could address the community concerns. Both the mayor and I said that we would work with the community to deliver this. However, Mr Buckeridge’s response to us was, “No, I don’t want to do that now because I’ve been told that if I go out to the airport, I won’t have to worry about these environmental issues, and unless you can say to me that I don’t have to get an environmental approval at Forrestdale, I’ll go for the airport land.” This is a disgraceful decision. It is one that is most unfair to that community in the eastern suburbs, and the federal government will pay for it.
The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Nedlands and the Leader of the National Party to order for the first time. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : The Town of Bassendean voted seven to one. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Nedlands to order for the second time. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : If eight to four is an emphatic no, this is no plus, plus, plus. There will be a great deal of anger among the people who are concerned about this issue. It is not that this particular brickworks is worse than any other brickworks. It is about putting a fourth, and arguably a fifth, brickworks into a single airshed - that is the concern. It is not that Mr Buckeridge’s brickworks are being targeted. It is the appropriateness of allowing another brickworks in an area in which we are trying to improve the air quality. The community will also be very angry - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Nedlands and the member for Roe to order. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We are quite happy to return Sunset Hospital to what it was before the Court government closed it down, and that was a home for men with drinking problems. I am sure the member for Nedlands would support its going back to its traditional use. The community will also be very angry when it knows that its local federal member, Mr Stuart Henry - who has, admittedly, been trying, without effect, to get this decision changed - is saying that the problem is that the state government has not offered any other sites. That is completely untrue. Mr J.N. Hyde : Sunset! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : That is a good idea. Mr Buckeridge was very keen at one stage on building this plant at Forrestdale. The local mayor, Linton Reynolds, said that he would support that industrially zoned land being used. I said to Mr Buckeridge that I would work through a community consultation process for him to make sure that we could address the community concerns. Both the mayor and I said that we would work with the community to deliver this. However, Mr Buckeridge’s response to us was, “No, I don’t want to do that now because I’ve been told that if I go out to the airport, I won’t have to worry about these environmental issues, and unless you can say to me that I don’t have to get an environmental approval at Forrestdale, I’ll go for the airport land.” This is a disgraceful decision. It is one that is most unfair to that community in the eastern suburbs, and the federal government will pay for it.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : The Town of Bassendean voted seven to one. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Nedlands to order for the second time. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : If eight to four is an emphatic no, this is no plus, plus, plus. There will be a great deal of anger among the people who are concerned about this issue. It is not that this particular brickworks is worse than any other brickworks. It is about putting a fourth, and arguably a fifth, brickworks into a single airshed - that is the concern. It is not that Mr Buckeridge’s brickworks are being targeted. It is the appropriateness of allowing another brickworks in an area in which we are trying to improve the air quality. The community will also be very angry - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Nedlands and the member for Roe to order. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We are quite happy to return Sunset Hospital to what it was before the Court government closed it down, and that was a home for men with drinking problems. I am sure the member for Nedlands would support its going back to its traditional use. The community will also be very angry when it knows that its local federal member, Mr Stuart Henry - who has, admittedly, been trying, without effect, to get this decision changed - is saying that the problem is that the state government has not offered any other sites. That is completely untrue. Mr J.N. Hyde : Sunset! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : That is a good idea. Mr Buckeridge was very keen at one stage on building this plant at Forrestdale. The local mayor, Linton Reynolds, said that he would support that industrially zoned land being used. I said to Mr Buckeridge that I would work through a community consultation process for him to make sure that we could address the community concerns. Both the mayor and I said that we would work with the community to deliver this. However, Mr Buckeridge’s response to us was, “No, I don’t want to do that now because I’ve been told that if I go out to the airport, I won’t have to worry about these environmental issues, and unless you can say to me that I don’t have to get an environmental approval at Forrestdale, I’ll go for the airport land.” This is a disgraceful decision. It is one that is most unfair to that community in the eastern suburbs, and the federal government will pay for it.
Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Nedlands to order for the second time. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : If eight to four is an emphatic no, this is no plus, plus, plus. There will be a great deal of anger among the people who are concerned about this issue. It is not that this particular brickworks is worse than any other brickworks. It is about putting a fourth, and arguably a fifth, brickworks into a single airshed - that is the concern. It is not that Mr Buckeridge’s brickworks are being targeted. It is the appropriateness of allowing another brickworks in an area in which we are trying to improve the air quality. The community will also be very angry - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Nedlands and the member for Roe to order. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We are quite happy to return Sunset Hospital to what it was before the Court government closed it down, and that was a home for men with drinking problems. I am sure the member for Nedlands would support its going back to its traditional use. The community will also be very angry when it knows that its local federal member, Mr Stuart Henry - who has, admittedly, been trying, without effect, to get this decision changed - is saying that the problem is that the state government has not offered any other sites. That is completely untrue. Mr J.N. Hyde : Sunset! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : That is a good idea. Mr Buckeridge was very keen at one stage on building this plant at Forrestdale. The local mayor, Linton Reynolds, said that he would support that industrially zoned land being used. I said to Mr Buckeridge that I would work through a community consultation process for him to make sure that we could address the community concerns. Both the mayor and I said that we would work with the community to deliver this. However, Mr Buckeridge’s response to us was, “No, I don’t want to do that now because I’ve been told that if I go out to the airport, I won’t have to worry about these environmental issues, and unless you can say to me that I don’t have to get an environmental approval at Forrestdale, I’ll go for the airport land.” This is a disgraceful decision. It is one that is most unfair to that community in the eastern suburbs, and the federal government will pay for it.
The SPEAKER : I call the member for Nedlands to order for the second time. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : If eight to four is an emphatic no, this is no plus, plus, plus. There will be a great deal of anger among the people who are concerned about this issue. It is not that this particular brickworks is worse than any other brickworks. It is about putting a fourth, and arguably a fifth, brickworks into a single airshed - that is the concern. It is not that Mr Buckeridge’s brickworks are being targeted. It is the appropriateness of allowing another brickworks in an area in which we are trying to improve the air quality. The community will also be very angry - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Nedlands and the member for Roe to order. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We are quite happy to return Sunset Hospital to what it was before the Court government closed it down, and that was a home for men with drinking problems. I am sure the member for Nedlands would support its going back to its traditional use. The community will also be very angry when it knows that its local federal member, Mr Stuart Henry - who has, admittedly, been trying, without effect, to get this decision changed - is saying that the problem is that the state government has not offered any other sites. That is completely untrue. Mr J.N. Hyde : Sunset! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : That is a good idea. Mr Buckeridge was very keen at one stage on building this plant at Forrestdale. The local mayor, Linton Reynolds, said that he would support that industrially zoned land being used. I said to Mr Buckeridge that I would work through a community consultation process for him to make sure that we could address the community concerns. Both the mayor and I said that we would work with the community to deliver this. However, Mr Buckeridge’s response to us was, “No, I don’t want to do that now because I’ve been told that if I go out to the airport, I won’t have to worry about these environmental issues, and unless you can say to me that I don’t have to get an environmental approval at Forrestdale, I’ll go for the airport land.” This is a disgraceful decision. It is one that is most unfair to that community in the eastern suburbs, and the federal government will pay for it.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : If eight to four is an emphatic no, this is no plus, plus, plus. There will be a great deal of anger among the people who are concerned about this issue. It is not that this particular brickworks is worse than any other brickworks. It is about putting a fourth, and arguably a fifth, brickworks into a single airshed - that is the concern. It is not that Mr Buckeridge’s brickworks are being targeted. It is the appropriateness of allowing another brickworks in an area in which we are trying to improve the air quality. The community will also be very angry - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Nedlands and the member for Roe to order. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We are quite happy to return Sunset Hospital to what it was before the Court government closed it down, and that was a home for men with drinking problems. I am sure the member for Nedlands would support its going back to its traditional use. The community will also be very angry when it knows that its local federal member, Mr Stuart Henry - who has, admittedly, been trying, without effect, to get this decision changed - is saying that the problem is that the state government has not offered any other sites. That is completely untrue. Mr J.N. Hyde : Sunset! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : That is a good idea. Mr Buckeridge was very keen at one stage on building this plant at Forrestdale. The local mayor, Linton Reynolds, said that he would support that industrially zoned land being used. I said to Mr Buckeridge that I would work through a community consultation process for him to make sure that we could address the community concerns. Both the mayor and I said that we would work with the community to deliver this. However, Mr Buckeridge’s response to us was, “No, I don’t want to do that now because I’ve been told that if I go out to the airport, I won’t have to worry about these environmental issues, and unless you can say to me that I don’t have to get an environmental approval at Forrestdale, I’ll go for the airport land.” This is a disgraceful decision. It is one that is most unfair to that community in the eastern suburbs, and the federal government will pay for it.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Nedlands and the member for Roe to order. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We are quite happy to return Sunset Hospital to what it was before the Court government closed it down, and that was a home for men with drinking problems. I am sure the member for Nedlands would support its going back to its traditional use. The community will also be very angry when it knows that its local federal member, Mr Stuart Henry - who has, admittedly, been trying, without effect, to get this decision changed - is saying that the problem is that the state government has not offered any other sites. That is completely untrue. Mr J.N. Hyde : Sunset! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : That is a good idea. Mr Buckeridge was very keen at one stage on building this plant at Forrestdale. The local mayor, Linton Reynolds, said that he would support that industrially zoned land being used. I said to Mr Buckeridge that I would work through a community consultation process for him to make sure that we could address the community concerns. Both the mayor and I said that we would work with the community to deliver this. However, Mr Buckeridge’s response to us was, “No, I don’t want to do that now because I’ve been told that if I go out to the airport, I won’t have to worry about these environmental issues, and unless you can say to me that I don’t have to get an environmental approval at Forrestdale, I’ll go for the airport land.” This is a disgraceful decision. It is one that is most unfair to that community in the eastern suburbs, and the federal government will pay for it.
The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Nedlands and the member for Roe to order. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We are quite happy to return Sunset Hospital to what it was before the Court government closed it down, and that was a home for men with drinking problems. I am sure the member for Nedlands would support its going back to its traditional use. The community will also be very angry when it knows that its local federal member, Mr Stuart Henry - who has, admittedly, been trying, without effect, to get this decision changed - is saying that the problem is that the state government has not offered any other sites. That is completely untrue. Mr J.N. Hyde : Sunset! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : That is a good idea. Mr Buckeridge was very keen at one stage on building this plant at Forrestdale. The local mayor, Linton Reynolds, said that he would support that industrially zoned land being used. I said to Mr Buckeridge that I would work through a community consultation process for him to make sure that we could address the community concerns. Both the mayor and I said that we would work with the community to deliver this. However, Mr Buckeridge’s response to us was, “No, I don’t want to do that now because I’ve been told that if I go out to the airport, I won’t have to worry about these environmental issues, and unless you can say to me that I don’t have to get an environmental approval at Forrestdale, I’ll go for the airport land.” This is a disgraceful decision. It is one that is most unfair to that community in the eastern suburbs, and the federal government will pay for it.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We are quite happy to return Sunset Hospital to what it was before the Court government closed it down, and that was a home for men with drinking problems. I am sure the member for Nedlands would support its going back to its traditional use. The community will also be very angry when it knows that its local federal member, Mr Stuart Henry - who has, admittedly, been trying, without effect, to get this decision changed - is saying that the problem is that the state government has not offered any other sites. That is completely untrue. Mr J.N. Hyde : Sunset! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : That is a good idea. Mr Buckeridge was very keen at one stage on building this plant at Forrestdale. The local mayor, Linton Reynolds, said that he would support that industrially zoned land being used. I said to Mr Buckeridge that I would work through a community consultation process for him to make sure that we could address the community concerns. Both the mayor and I said that we would work with the community to deliver this. However, Mr Buckeridge’s response to us was, “No, I don’t want to do that now because I’ve been told that if I go out to the airport, I won’t have to worry about these environmental issues, and unless you can say to me that I don’t have to get an environmental approval at Forrestdale, I’ll go for the airport land.” This is a disgraceful decision. It is one that is most unfair to that community in the eastern suburbs, and the federal government will pay for it.
The community will also be very angry when it knows that its local federal member, Mr Stuart Henry - who has, admittedly, been trying, without effect, to get this decision changed - is saying that the problem is that the state government has not offered any other sites. That is completely untrue. Mr J.N. Hyde : Sunset! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : That is a good idea. Mr Buckeridge was very keen at one stage on building this plant at Forrestdale. The local mayor, Linton Reynolds, said that he would support that industrially zoned land being used. I said to Mr Buckeridge that I would work through a community consultation process for him to make sure that we could address the community concerns. Both the mayor and I said that we would work with the community to deliver this. However, Mr Buckeridge’s response to us was, “No, I don’t want to do that now because I’ve been told that if I go out to the airport, I won’t have to worry about these environmental issues, and unless you can say to me that I don’t have to get an environmental approval at Forrestdale, I’ll go for the airport land.” This is a disgraceful decision. It is one that is most unfair to that community in the eastern suburbs, and the federal government will pay for it.
Mr J.N. Hyde : Sunset! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : That is a good idea. Mr Buckeridge was very keen at one stage on building this plant at Forrestdale. The local mayor, Linton Reynolds, said that he would support that industrially zoned land being used. I said to Mr Buckeridge that I would work through a community consultation process for him to make sure that we could address the community concerns. Both the mayor and I said that we would work with the community to deliver this. However, Mr Buckeridge’s response to us was, “No, I don’t want to do that now because I’ve been told that if I go out to the airport, I won’t have to worry about these environmental issues, and unless you can say to me that I don’t have to get an environmental approval at Forrestdale, I’ll go for the airport land.” This is a disgraceful decision. It is one that is most unfair to that community in the eastern suburbs, and the federal government will pay for it.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : That is a good idea. Mr Buckeridge was very keen at one stage on building this plant at Forrestdale. The local mayor, Linton Reynolds, said that he would support that industrially zoned land being used. I said to Mr Buckeridge that I would work through a community consultation process for him to make sure that we could address the community concerns. Both the mayor and I said that we would work with the community to deliver this. However, Mr Buckeridge’s response to us was, “No, I don’t want to do that now because I’ve been told that if I go out to the airport, I won’t have to worry about these environmental issues, and unless you can say to me that I don’t have to get an environmental approval at Forrestdale, I’ll go for the airport land.” This is a disgraceful decision. It is one that is most unfair to that community in the eastern suburbs, and the federal government will pay for it.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN replied: I thank the member for her question. I acknowledge that both the member for Midland and the member for Swan Hills have been very active advocates for their communities. The very first consequence of this decision will be a lot of community anger and concern about the hypocrisy of the federal government. Senator Campbell, the environment minister and the man who wields all the power in the Liberal Party, took a position about the Denmark wind farm and about wind farms generally that, indeed, they should not be approved if there was any community opposition. I will quote something said by Senator Campbell, the man who gave the brickworks the environmental tick. When in his prospective electorate of Denmark, Senator Campbell said - . . . that state governments are riding roughshod over local communities, imposing wind farms on them against their clearly expressed wishes. He goes on to quote some figures, which are not quite right. He further said - . . . 130 of the 183 submissions on the wind farm opposed it. The shire council voted 8-4 against the wind farm. This is about as emphatic a “no” as one could get, yet the Western Australian Government believes community concern about wind farms is not important. Let us have a look at what happened in the eastern suburbs. The City of Belmont voted 100 per cent against the brickworks, and the City of Swan voted 100 per cent against it. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Nedlands and the Leader of the National Party to order for the first time. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : The Town of Bassendean voted seven to one. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Nedlands to order for the second time. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : If eight to four is an emphatic no, this is no plus, plus, plus. There will be a great deal of anger among the people who are concerned about this issue. It is not that this particular brickworks is worse than any other brickworks. It is about putting a fourth, and arguably a fifth, brickworks into a single airshed - that is the concern. It is not that Mr Buckeridge’s brickworks are being targeted. It is the appropriateness of allowing another brickworks in an area in which we are trying to improve the air quality. The community will also be very angry - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Nedlands and the member for Roe to order. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We are quite happy to return Sunset Hospital to what it was before the Court government closed it down, and that was a home for men with drinking problems. I am sure the member for Nedlands would support its going back to its traditional use. The community will also be very angry when it knows that its local federal member, Mr Stuart Henry - who has, admittedly, been trying, without effect, to get this decision changed - is saying that the problem is that the state government has not offered any other sites. That is completely untrue. Mr J.N. Hyde : Sunset! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : That is a good idea. Mr Buckeridge was very keen at one stage on building this plant at Forrestdale. The local mayor, Linton Reynolds, said that he would support that industrially zoned land being used. I said to Mr Buckeridge that I would work through a community consultation process for him to make sure that we could address the community concerns. Both the mayor and I said that we would work with the community to deliver this. However, Mr Buckeridge’s response to us was, “No, I don’t want to do that now because I’ve been told that if I go out to the airport, I won’t have to worry about these environmental issues, and unless you can say to me that I don’t have to get an environmental approval at Forrestdale, I’ll go for the airport land.” This is a disgraceful decision. It is one that is most unfair to that community in the eastern suburbs, and the federal government will pay for it.
I thank the member for her question. I acknowledge that both the member for Midland and the member for Swan Hills have been very active advocates for their communities. The very first consequence of this decision will be a lot of community anger and concern about the hypocrisy of the federal government. Senator Campbell, the environment minister and the man who wields all the power in the Liberal Party, took a position about the Denmark wind farm and about wind farms generally that, indeed, they should not be approved if there was any community opposition. I will quote something said by Senator Campbell, the man who gave the brickworks the environmental tick. When in his prospective electorate of Denmark, Senator Campbell said - . . . that state governments are riding roughshod over local communities, imposing wind farms on them against their clearly expressed wishes. He goes on to quote some figures, which are not quite right. He further said - . . . 130 of the 183 submissions on the wind farm opposed it. The shire council voted 8-4 against the wind farm. This is about as emphatic a “no” as one could get, yet the Western Australian Government believes community concern about wind farms is not important. Let us have a look at what happened in the eastern suburbs. The City of Belmont voted 100 per cent against the brickworks, and the City of Swan voted 100 per cent against it. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Nedlands and the Leader of the National Party to order for the first time. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : The Town of Bassendean voted seven to one. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Nedlands to order for the second time. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : If eight to four is an emphatic no, this is no plus, plus, plus. There will be a great deal of anger among the people who are concerned about this issue. It is not that this particular brickworks is worse than any other brickworks. It is about putting a fourth, and arguably a fifth, brickworks into a single airshed - that is the concern. It is not that Mr Buckeridge’s brickworks are being targeted. It is the appropriateness of allowing another brickworks in an area in which we are trying to improve the air quality. The community will also be very angry - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Nedlands and the member for Roe to order. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We are quite happy to return Sunset Hospital to what it was before the Court government closed it down, and that was a home for men with drinking problems. I am sure the member for Nedlands would support its going back to its traditional use. The community will also be very angry when it knows that its local federal member, Mr Stuart Henry - who has, admittedly, been trying, without effect, to get this decision changed - is saying that the problem is that the state government has not offered any other sites. That is completely untrue. Mr J.N. Hyde : Sunset! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : That is a good idea. Mr Buckeridge was very keen at one stage on building this plant at Forrestdale. The local mayor, Linton Reynolds, said that he would support that industrially zoned land being used. I said to Mr Buckeridge that I would work through a community consultation process for him to make sure that we could address the community concerns. Both the mayor and I said that we would work with the community to deliver this. However, Mr Buckeridge’s response to us was, “No, I don’t want to do that now because I’ve been told that if I go out to the airport, I won’t have to worry about these environmental issues, and unless you can say to me that I don’t have to get an environmental approval at Forrestdale, I’ll go for the airport land.” This is a disgraceful decision. It is one that is most unfair to that community in the eastern suburbs, and the federal government will pay for it.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Nedlands and the Leader of the National Party to order for the first time. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : The Town of Bassendean voted seven to one. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Nedlands to order for the second time. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : If eight to four is an emphatic no, this is no plus, plus, plus. There will be a great deal of anger among the people who are concerned about this issue. It is not that this particular brickworks is worse than any other brickworks. It is about putting a fourth, and arguably a fifth, brickworks into a single airshed - that is the concern. It is not that Mr Buckeridge’s brickworks are being targeted. It is the appropriateness of allowing another brickworks in an area in which we are trying to improve the air quality. The community will also be very angry - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Nedlands and the member for Roe to order. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We are quite happy to return Sunset Hospital to what it was before the Court government closed it down, and that was a home for men with drinking problems. I am sure the member for Nedlands would support its going back to its traditional use. The community will also be very angry when it knows that its local federal member, Mr Stuart Henry - who has, admittedly, been trying, without effect, to get this decision changed - is saying that the problem is that the state government has not offered any other sites. That is completely untrue. Mr J.N. Hyde : Sunset! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : That is a good idea. Mr Buckeridge was very keen at one stage on building this plant at Forrestdale. The local mayor, Linton Reynolds, said that he would support that industrially zoned land being used. I said to Mr Buckeridge that I would work through a community consultation process for him to make sure that we could address the community concerns. Both the mayor and I said that we would work with the community to deliver this. However, Mr Buckeridge’s response to us was, “No, I don’t want to do that now because I’ve been told that if I go out to the airport, I won’t have to worry about these environmental issues, and unless you can say to me that I don’t have to get an environmental approval at Forrestdale, I’ll go for the airport land.” This is a disgraceful decision. It is one that is most unfair to that community in the eastern suburbs, and the federal government will pay for it.
The SPEAKER : Order, members! I call the member for Nedlands and the Leader of the National Party to order for the first time. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : The Town of Bassendean voted seven to one. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Nedlands to order for the second time. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : If eight to four is an emphatic no, this is no plus, plus, plus. There will be a great deal of anger among the people who are concerned about this issue. It is not that this particular brickworks is worse than any other brickworks. It is about putting a fourth, and arguably a fifth, brickworks into a single airshed - that is the concern. It is not that Mr Buckeridge’s brickworks are being targeted. It is the appropriateness of allowing another brickworks in an area in which we are trying to improve the air quality. The community will also be very angry - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Nedlands and the member for Roe to order. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We are quite happy to return Sunset Hospital to what it was before the Court government closed it down, and that was a home for men with drinking problems. I am sure the member for Nedlands would support its going back to its traditional use. The community will also be very angry when it knows that its local federal member, Mr Stuart Henry - who has, admittedly, been trying, without effect, to get this decision changed - is saying that the problem is that the state government has not offered any other sites. That is completely untrue. Mr J.N. Hyde : Sunset! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : That is a good idea. Mr Buckeridge was very keen at one stage on building this plant at Forrestdale. The local mayor, Linton Reynolds, said that he would support that industrially zoned land being used. I said to Mr Buckeridge that I would work through a community consultation process for him to make sure that we could address the community concerns. Both the mayor and I said that we would work with the community to deliver this. However, Mr Buckeridge’s response to us was, “No, I don’t want to do that now because I’ve been told that if I go out to the airport, I won’t have to worry about these environmental issues, and unless you can say to me that I don’t have to get an environmental approval at Forrestdale, I’ll go for the airport land.” This is a disgraceful decision. It is one that is most unfair to that community in the eastern suburbs, and the federal government will pay for it.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : The Town of Bassendean voted seven to one. Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Nedlands to order for the second time. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : If eight to four is an emphatic no, this is no plus, plus, plus. There will be a great deal of anger among the people who are concerned about this issue. It is not that this particular brickworks is worse than any other brickworks. It is about putting a fourth, and arguably a fifth, brickworks into a single airshed - that is the concern. It is not that Mr Buckeridge’s brickworks are being targeted. It is the appropriateness of allowing another brickworks in an area in which we are trying to improve the air quality. The community will also be very angry - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Nedlands and the member for Roe to order. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We are quite happy to return Sunset Hospital to what it was before the Court government closed it down, and that was a home for men with drinking problems. I am sure the member for Nedlands would support its going back to its traditional use. The community will also be very angry when it knows that its local federal member, Mr Stuart Henry - who has, admittedly, been trying, without effect, to get this decision changed - is saying that the problem is that the state government has not offered any other sites. That is completely untrue. Mr J.N. Hyde : Sunset! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : That is a good idea. Mr Buckeridge was very keen at one stage on building this plant at Forrestdale. The local mayor, Linton Reynolds, said that he would support that industrially zoned land being used. I said to Mr Buckeridge that I would work through a community consultation process for him to make sure that we could address the community concerns. Both the mayor and I said that we would work with the community to deliver this. However, Mr Buckeridge’s response to us was, “No, I don’t want to do that now because I’ve been told that if I go out to the airport, I won’t have to worry about these environmental issues, and unless you can say to me that I don’t have to get an environmental approval at Forrestdale, I’ll go for the airport land.” This is a disgraceful decision. It is one that is most unfair to that community in the eastern suburbs, and the federal government will pay for it.
Ms S.E. Walker interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the member for Nedlands to order for the second time. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : If eight to four is an emphatic no, this is no plus, plus, plus. There will be a great deal of anger among the people who are concerned about this issue. It is not that this particular brickworks is worse than any other brickworks. It is about putting a fourth, and arguably a fifth, brickworks into a single airshed - that is the concern. It is not that Mr Buckeridge’s brickworks are being targeted. It is the appropriateness of allowing another brickworks in an area in which we are trying to improve the air quality. The community will also be very angry - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Nedlands and the member for Roe to order. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We are quite happy to return Sunset Hospital to what it was before the Court government closed it down, and that was a home for men with drinking problems. I am sure the member for Nedlands would support its going back to its traditional use. The community will also be very angry when it knows that its local federal member, Mr Stuart Henry - who has, admittedly, been trying, without effect, to get this decision changed - is saying that the problem is that the state government has not offered any other sites. That is completely untrue. Mr J.N. Hyde : Sunset! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : That is a good idea. Mr Buckeridge was very keen at one stage on building this plant at Forrestdale. The local mayor, Linton Reynolds, said that he would support that industrially zoned land being used. I said to Mr Buckeridge that I would work through a community consultation process for him to make sure that we could address the community concerns. Both the mayor and I said that we would work with the community to deliver this. However, Mr Buckeridge’s response to us was, “No, I don’t want to do that now because I’ve been told that if I go out to the airport, I won’t have to worry about these environmental issues, and unless you can say to me that I don’t have to get an environmental approval at Forrestdale, I’ll go for the airport land.” This is a disgraceful decision. It is one that is most unfair to that community in the eastern suburbs, and the federal government will pay for it.
The SPEAKER : I call the member for Nedlands to order for the second time. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : If eight to four is an emphatic no, this is no plus, plus, plus. There will be a great deal of anger among the people who are concerned about this issue. It is not that this particular brickworks is worse than any other brickworks. It is about putting a fourth, and arguably a fifth, brickworks into a single airshed - that is the concern. It is not that Mr Buckeridge’s brickworks are being targeted. It is the appropriateness of allowing another brickworks in an area in which we are trying to improve the air quality. The community will also be very angry - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Nedlands and the member for Roe to order. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We are quite happy to return Sunset Hospital to what it was before the Court government closed it down, and that was a home for men with drinking problems. I am sure the member for Nedlands would support its going back to its traditional use. The community will also be very angry when it knows that its local federal member, Mr Stuart Henry - who has, admittedly, been trying, without effect, to get this decision changed - is saying that the problem is that the state government has not offered any other sites. That is completely untrue. Mr J.N. Hyde : Sunset! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : That is a good idea. Mr Buckeridge was very keen at one stage on building this plant at Forrestdale. The local mayor, Linton Reynolds, said that he would support that industrially zoned land being used. I said to Mr Buckeridge that I would work through a community consultation process for him to make sure that we could address the community concerns. Both the mayor and I said that we would work with the community to deliver this. However, Mr Buckeridge’s response to us was, “No, I don’t want to do that now because I’ve been told that if I go out to the airport, I won’t have to worry about these environmental issues, and unless you can say to me that I don’t have to get an environmental approval at Forrestdale, I’ll go for the airport land.” This is a disgraceful decision. It is one that is most unfair to that community in the eastern suburbs, and the federal government will pay for it.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : If eight to four is an emphatic no, this is no plus, plus, plus. There will be a great deal of anger among the people who are concerned about this issue. It is not that this particular brickworks is worse than any other brickworks. It is about putting a fourth, and arguably a fifth, brickworks into a single airshed - that is the concern. It is not that Mr Buckeridge’s brickworks are being targeted. It is the appropriateness of allowing another brickworks in an area in which we are trying to improve the air quality. The community will also be very angry - Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Nedlands and the member for Roe to order. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We are quite happy to return Sunset Hospital to what it was before the Court government closed it down, and that was a home for men with drinking problems. I am sure the member for Nedlands would support its going back to its traditional use. The community will also be very angry when it knows that its local federal member, Mr Stuart Henry - who has, admittedly, been trying, without effect, to get this decision changed - is saying that the problem is that the state government has not offered any other sites. That is completely untrue. Mr J.N. Hyde : Sunset! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : That is a good idea. Mr Buckeridge was very keen at one stage on building this plant at Forrestdale. The local mayor, Linton Reynolds, said that he would support that industrially zoned land being used. I said to Mr Buckeridge that I would work through a community consultation process for him to make sure that we could address the community concerns. Both the mayor and I said that we would work with the community to deliver this. However, Mr Buckeridge’s response to us was, “No, I don’t want to do that now because I’ve been told that if I go out to the airport, I won’t have to worry about these environmental issues, and unless you can say to me that I don’t have to get an environmental approval at Forrestdale, I’ll go for the airport land.” This is a disgraceful decision. It is one that is most unfair to that community in the eastern suburbs, and the federal government will pay for it.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Nedlands and the member for Roe to order. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We are quite happy to return Sunset Hospital to what it was before the Court government closed it down, and that was a home for men with drinking problems. I am sure the member for Nedlands would support its going back to its traditional use. The community will also be very angry when it knows that its local federal member, Mr Stuart Henry - who has, admittedly, been trying, without effect, to get this decision changed - is saying that the problem is that the state government has not offered any other sites. That is completely untrue. Mr J.N. Hyde : Sunset! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : That is a good idea. Mr Buckeridge was very keen at one stage on building this plant at Forrestdale. The local mayor, Linton Reynolds, said that he would support that industrially zoned land being used. I said to Mr Buckeridge that I would work through a community consultation process for him to make sure that we could address the community concerns. Both the mayor and I said that we would work with the community to deliver this. However, Mr Buckeridge’s response to us was, “No, I don’t want to do that now because I’ve been told that if I go out to the airport, I won’t have to worry about these environmental issues, and unless you can say to me that I don’t have to get an environmental approval at Forrestdale, I’ll go for the airport land.” This is a disgraceful decision. It is one that is most unfair to that community in the eastern suburbs, and the federal government will pay for it.
The SPEAKER : Order! I call the member for Nedlands and the member for Roe to order. Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We are quite happy to return Sunset Hospital to what it was before the Court government closed it down, and that was a home for men with drinking problems. I am sure the member for Nedlands would support its going back to its traditional use. The community will also be very angry when it knows that its local federal member, Mr Stuart Henry - who has, admittedly, been trying, without effect, to get this decision changed - is saying that the problem is that the state government has not offered any other sites. That is completely untrue. Mr J.N. Hyde : Sunset! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : That is a good idea. Mr Buckeridge was very keen at one stage on building this plant at Forrestdale. The local mayor, Linton Reynolds, said that he would support that industrially zoned land being used. I said to Mr Buckeridge that I would work through a community consultation process for him to make sure that we could address the community concerns. Both the mayor and I said that we would work with the community to deliver this. However, Mr Buckeridge’s response to us was, “No, I don’t want to do that now because I’ve been told that if I go out to the airport, I won’t have to worry about these environmental issues, and unless you can say to me that I don’t have to get an environmental approval at Forrestdale, I’ll go for the airport land.” This is a disgraceful decision. It is one that is most unfair to that community in the eastern suburbs, and the federal government will pay for it.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : We are quite happy to return Sunset Hospital to what it was before the Court government closed it down, and that was a home for men with drinking problems. I am sure the member for Nedlands would support its going back to its traditional use. The community will also be very angry when it knows that its local federal member, Mr Stuart Henry - who has, admittedly, been trying, without effect, to get this decision changed - is saying that the problem is that the state government has not offered any other sites. That is completely untrue. Mr J.N. Hyde : Sunset! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : That is a good idea. Mr Buckeridge was very keen at one stage on building this plant at Forrestdale. The local mayor, Linton Reynolds, said that he would support that industrially zoned land being used. I said to Mr Buckeridge that I would work through a community consultation process for him to make sure that we could address the community concerns. Both the mayor and I said that we would work with the community to deliver this. However, Mr Buckeridge’s response to us was, “No, I don’t want to do that now because I’ve been told that if I go out to the airport, I won’t have to worry about these environmental issues, and unless you can say to me that I don’t have to get an environmental approval at Forrestdale, I’ll go for the airport land.” This is a disgraceful decision. It is one that is most unfair to that community in the eastern suburbs, and the federal government will pay for it.
The community will also be very angry when it knows that its local federal member, Mr Stuart Henry - who has, admittedly, been trying, without effect, to get this decision changed - is saying that the problem is that the state government has not offered any other sites. That is completely untrue. Mr J.N. Hyde : Sunset! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : That is a good idea. Mr Buckeridge was very keen at one stage on building this plant at Forrestdale. The local mayor, Linton Reynolds, said that he would support that industrially zoned land being used. I said to Mr Buckeridge that I would work through a community consultation process for him to make sure that we could address the community concerns. Both the mayor and I said that we would work with the community to deliver this. However, Mr Buckeridge’s response to us was, “No, I don’t want to do that now because I’ve been told that if I go out to the airport, I won’t have to worry about these environmental issues, and unless you can say to me that I don’t have to get an environmental approval at Forrestdale, I’ll go for the airport land.” This is a disgraceful decision. It is one that is most unfair to that community in the eastern suburbs, and the federal government will pay for it.
Mr J.N. Hyde : Sunset! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : That is a good idea. Mr Buckeridge was very keen at one stage on building this plant at Forrestdale. The local mayor, Linton Reynolds, said that he would support that industrially zoned land being used. I said to Mr Buckeridge that I would work through a community consultation process for him to make sure that we could address the community concerns. Both the mayor and I said that we would work with the community to deliver this. However, Mr Buckeridge’s response to us was, “No, I don’t want to do that now because I’ve been told that if I go out to the airport, I won’t have to worry about these environmental issues, and unless you can say to me that I don’t have to get an environmental approval at Forrestdale, I’ll go for the airport land.” This is a disgraceful decision. It is one that is most unfair to that community in the eastern suburbs, and the federal government will pay for it.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : That is a good idea. Mr Buckeridge was very keen at one stage on building this plant at Forrestdale. The local mayor, Linton Reynolds, said that he would support that industrially zoned land being used. I said to Mr Buckeridge that I would work through a community consultation process for him to make sure that we could address the community concerns. Both the mayor and I said that we would work with the community to deliver this. However, Mr Buckeridge’s response to us was, “No, I don’t want to do that now because I’ve been told that if I go out to the airport, I won’t have to worry about these environmental issues, and unless you can say to me that I don’t have to get an environmental approval at Forrestdale, I’ll go for the airport land.” This is a disgraceful decision. It is one that is most unfair to that community in the eastern suburbs, and the federal government will pay for it.
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