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Tuesday, 25 March 2003
Page: 13439


Mr MURPHY (5:14 PM) —I just cannot let this opportunity go by. The Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Finance and Administration has confirmed what we all knew would happen: Sydney airport is to be expanded now that it has been privatised. Notwithstanding that Customs have a duty and have to be appropriately accommodated, it will not be very long before there are 496,400 aircraft movements per annum at Sydney airport now that it has been privatised. That is of grave concern to my constituents in Lowe and, indeed, to all constituents of the inner west of Sydney. I want to put that on record. I ask the parliamentary secretary—whom I have some regard for, I might add—to go back to the Deputy Prime Minister and ask that he get Airservices Australia to fully implement the long-term operating plan for Sydney airport, because I am afraid the people of the inner west are copping more than 50 per cent more noise than they were promised by the government.