Craig Kelly (Hughes, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I would like to share with the House some great news for the residents of Georges Fair in my electorate and, in fact, all the residents of Western Sydney, with the announcement that the proposed Moorebank concrete-recycling plant will not go ahead and this land will now be used for residential development. This is something to celebrate and truly great news. It is an outrage that it actually proceeded this far. How the New South Wales Land and Environment Court could approve a noisy, dirty, air-polluting concrete-crushing plant within 300 metres of homes, next to the river and close to a $47 million marina which had already been approved is beyond belief. It was an act of environmental vandalism.

But finally sanity is approved. I would like to say thank you to the Moorebank Residents' Action Group, particularly Fiona Macnaught and Rebekah Foxe, for the great work that they have done in rallying the community to prevent this environmental disaster going ahead. Liverpool will return to the river city that it once was, the Georges River will be opened up, and the marina there on the old Flower Power site will be an enormous advantage to the people of my electorate and to the people of all Western Sydney.