Zed Seselja wonders why Labor won't give Lanyon Valley a pool

Smooth move Zed. I’ve got an idea for how you can serve the community, get out of the assembly and stop taking our money when you’re nothing more than a very lame duck MLA.

p1 said :

Demand for a pool in Lanyon Valley has probably been lower then you might think, cause they have much closer access to Point Hut Crossing (about ten minutes for a teenager on a pushie then most of the city. So the serious, vocal, segment of the community that you would normally hear on Today Tonight after a hot week in summer find something else to whinge about.

Damn straight!

For too long the people of Canberra outside of the Lanyon Valley have not had reasonable access to rivers.

When are the Canberra Liberals going to commit to provide rivers and swimming holes for the neglected residents of the rest of Canberra?

I want my river!

Somebody needs to explain to Zed how this politics thing works. It’s not all branch stacks and shenanigans because you got staff on the management committee in the real world you know.

The way it works is this:

If you don’t vote for the government you don’t get, simple. Because, let’s face it, if you’re not going to vote for us, why should we do anything for you?

If you do vote for the government, you don’t get. Because, if you’re too stupid to change your vote and put us on a knife edge, we’re going to take you for granted; and you get nothing.

Now sod off and stop asking us for stuff.

Demand for a pool in Lanyon Valley has probably been lower then you might think, cause they have much closer access to Point Hut Crossing (about ten minutes for a teenager on a pushie then most of the city. So the serious, vocal, segment of the community that you would normally hear on Today Tonight after a hot week in summer find something else to whinge about.

CrocodileGandhi said :

You can’t put a library in a pool. The books would get all wet.

Yeah, but it might make swimming more interesting if you can read at the same time

Lanyon residents can’t go Tuggeranong pool 3 minutes down the road. On this basis Hall has been waiting for a pool since 1911.

You can’t put a library in a pool. The books would get all wet.

A library may prove useful, and need only be a similar size to that at Kingston branch.
A pool? Why? We have two in Tuggeranong that can be accessed. Want Lanyonites to visit them? Fix the dodgy public transport issues.
Community meeting areas? I’d leverage the facilities available at the local club or at Mura.

I’d much rather see some cooperative consultation between the ACT, NSW and Federales about getting a decent road across the Brindabellas to Tumut,

Seriously though Lanyon should at least have a library. Holt has one FFS.

andym said :

“For too long the people of the Lanyon Valley have not had reasonable access to important community facilities like a pool, community meeting areas, a public library or recreational facilities,” said Mr Seselja.”

Has anyone from Lanyon Valley ever asked for these facilities? As Watto says the Tugg facilities are only 5 mins away – ditto for Erindale. I assumed everyone else was happy to go there like we do…..seems like “reasonable” access to me.

It was new to me and I had not heard of it until the election, nor heard anyone talk of it since. I personally don’t think we need it, we have a community nursing centre and all the major stuff is in Tuggeranong. I would rather see the money go there for upgrades than wasting time & resources on building new stuff.