Mr BRUCE NOTLEY-SMITH: My question is directed to the Minister for Planning and Infrastructure. Would the Minister update the House on the progress of the part 3A application for the redevelopment of the Coogee Bay Hotel?

Mr BRAD HAZZARD: I thank the member for Coogee. What a great member of Parliament—he received a 15 per cent swing in Coogee. Do members know why we have the member for Coogee with us now on this side of the House? It is about trust. The member for Coogee, of course, had 10 years on Randwick council and people got to know him and they trust him. Unfortunately that was not a quality that we found in Labor members in the last Government. If one starts heading north from Coogee on a nice holiday to the North Coast—

The SPEAKER: Order! The member for Maroubra will come to order.

Mr BRAD HAZZARD: The member is an exception to the rule. Heading south is pretty good, too.

The SPEAKER: It certainly is.

Mr BRAD HAZZARD: I suppose we could talk about the swing of the member for Maroubra, but that was not the best. It is interesting that Coogee is just the start of the good news as one heads north. What a lovely part of New South Wales it is. We have Liberal and Nationals electorates all the way north to the Tweed. I might just take a moment to let members know what seats are. We have Coogee; Vaucluse; and then whip across the harbour and take a ferry to Manly; Wakehurst; Pittwater; Gosford; Terrigal; The Entrance; Wyong. Have we got to a Labor seat yet? Some of them were Labor seats, were they not, until people realised that Labor could not be trusted. I shall continue: Swansea; Charlestown—what a great area that is—a Liberal area; Newcastle; Port Stephens—where is "landslide"?; Myall Lakes; and Port Macquarie. Where is our lovely Leslie Williams? What a great campaign she ran. Well done, Leslie Williams. It was a message for the Independents. I continue: Oxley; Coffs Harbour; Clarence; Ballina; Tweed.

Mr Michael Daley: Point of order: I rise on behalf of the member for Coogee—

The SPEAKER: Order! What is the member's point of order?

Mr Michael Daley: One or two minutes have elapsed and not a mention of the Coogee Bay Hotel, not a mention.

The SPEAKER: Order! As I said yesterday, I cannot direct a Minister to answer a question in a specific way. I am sure that the Minister will get to his answer, for which he is providing a context. The member for Maroubra will resume his seat.

Mr BRAD HAZZARD: The member will start to wish he had not heard about the Coogee Bay Hotel in a second.

The SPEAKER: Order! The member for Maroubra will remain silent.

Mr BRAD HAZZARD: Since the member has taken us back to the Coogee Bay Hotel and the question of trust—

Ms Kristina Keneally: Have you ever been there?

Mr BRAD HAZZARD: Yes, I have actually. I have been there quite a few times. The member for Heffron should have gone down there and listened to the community. Had she listened to the community and made sure that her Government was responding, she would not be sitting over there on the Opposition side of the House tweeting away and carrying on with little messages. That is as important as it gets these days: sitting and tweeting. The Coogee Bay Hotel matter is about trust. I can tell the House today that despite the community's concern about the development proposed at Coogee Bay Hotel and despite the Government indicating nothing to the public about that hotel being taken in under the infamous part 3A provision—

The SPEAKER: Order! The member for Canterbury will come to order.

Mr BRAD HAZZARD: :—on 10 December last year, some months after I had visited the site along with the new member for Coogee to express the community's concern, and some months after there had been much expression of concern in the local press, the former Government showed it could not be trusted. It has only become obvious now what members opposite did. Without telling the public and without telling anybody in Coogee, they went to the election having taken the Coogee Bay Hotel application in under part 3A.

Mr Barry O'Farrell: Shame!

Mr BRAD HAZZARD: It is a shame. And do you think they told anybody? Absolutely not. They went to the election not letting anybody know, despite the concerns in the local community that the application had been taken in under part 3A. Did they tell them in January? No! Did they tell them in February?

Government members: No.

Mr BRAD HAZZARD: Did they tell them in March?

Government members: No.

Mr BRAD HAZZARD: Labor went right through the election effectively lying to the Coogee community. But we all know the Coogee community saw through that, which is why we have a very fine member for Coogee who will ensure that trust and truth are the hallmarks of his representation of his electorate and representation of the people of New South Wales by the Government.