Ms OWENS (Parramatta) (19:34): When I talk to people in my community, I'm amazed at the aspiration that they have for the community at large. Whether they're looking at more, better or affordable housing models or whether they're looking at community composting to reduce travel time or build the local economy, they want our community to be better and they're keen to find ways to work together to make that happen. Unfortunately, in our communities, it's quite difficult to find people of like mind and collaborate in the ways that we need to. I want to talk today about one of my organisations, which has a really interesting lens through which to look at this issue. It's Parramatta Mission, which has a Centre for Faith and Public Issues that'll be holding a day-long symposium in October called: 'Is "great" good enough?' It will look at the language that people are using to describe the growth of our city at the moment, which is to build a 'great city'. It will ask: is being a 'great city' enough, or should we be a 'good city'? In their context, it comes from principle 3 of the Parramatta Mission's 'inSpire the Common Good' project. It's really interesting to look at the future of our city from that particular lens, looking for cohesion and looking for a community which supports the vulnerable, which worries about equity and which is concerned if people in the lower socioeconomic status still have access to the NBN—all of the things that we would want for a city to be a good city. But for me there's another side to it as well, which is being good at being a city, which is also different from being a great city. Being good at being a city for me really means recognising that in many ways our cities have passed their use-by dates. We spend too much time travelling. I have people in my community who go to the train station before 7 am in the morning, even though they don't start until nine, because they can't park otherwise. We have a whole range of young people and people over the age of 45 with an incredible capacity to contribute and no real way to do so. We have people who care about biodiversity. I have two businesses that have approached me in the last week in the CBD that can't recycle. They are putting all of their bottles, in spite of the 10c deposit scheme, in the general waste because the recycling companies will not come into the CBD and down those lanes to collect them. There are many ways for us to improve what we do as a community. I'm going to suggest to my community to have a real think about the three ways that we can look at our city: as 'the great city', which is what the state government talks about when they talk about building infrastructure; as 'a good city', which is what Parramatta Mission talks about and will spend a whole day on in late October; and 'being good at being a city'—working out how we actually use the fact that we have so many of us in a small area that produce a lot of waste. There's an opportunity there. We have dead spaces along our footpaths and in our yards where we can really rapidly scale up biodiversity. We can build local economies by supporting each other. Again, I know many people who have said to me, 'The new food delivery services are really interesting, but I'm waiting for the local one so people can be properly paid and we can actually support local businesses.' I'm asking my community to join with me. If you're interested in any of these things, please send my office a bit of a message. I think that through the months of late October and November, it would be a good idea for some of us to get together and form groups of like mind to see if we can get some of this stuff done. There are extraordinary examples all around the world and all around Australia of people who are working to be good at being a city and making their cities a better place. We, as Western Sydney, should be part of that. As other parts of the world try to find solutions to better recycling, better composting, better soil quality, better water retention and all of that stuff that we know we need to do in our cities, we want to be world leaders in it. Please get in touch with my office. I already have quite a large list of people from various fields. We've got some world experts in recycling. We have some world experts in urban ecology living in our community. We have a world expert in international models for affordable housing—incredible skills at the University of Western Sydney and the other universities that are now moving into the area as well. We can get stuff done and we can make a difference. We can be a great city and a good city, and we can be good at being a city.