{"id":37166,"date":"2026-01-31T09:04:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T22:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=37166"},"modified":"2026-01-31T09:04:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T22:04:06","slug":"greens-welcome-regulatory-action-on-big-splash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/01\/31\/greens-welcome-regulatory-action-on-big-splash\/","title":{"rendered":"Greens welcome regulatory action on Big Splash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After two years of sustained community and parliamentary pressure, the <\/strong>ACT Government has finally escalated action against the owner of Big Splash <\/a><\/strong>following their failure to maintain the site and open over the past two summers.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

ACT Greens Deputy Leader and Member for Ginninderra, Jo Clay, says this is encouraging movement, with a consideration to terminate the lease, but a little too late.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhile this is welcome news and great the see that the ACT Government is finally listening to the community, it should have come sooner,” Ms Clay said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe reality is the Labor Government had authority to escalate regulatory action against the owner of Big Splash for failing to meet the condition of its lease from March 2025 \u2013 after being closed to the public for 12 months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWithout the sustained pressure from the community including two petitions, in parliament, and countless questions to the Planning Minister, the ACT Labor Government would have sat back and watched Canberra\u2019s only waterpark become one for the history books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cToday\u2019s announcement shows that Canberrans have power to drive government action. Now it\u2019s time for us to uphold the government, ensure these are not empty words and ensure Canberra has a waterpark for future generations.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After two years of sustained community and parliamentary pressure, the ACT Government has finally escalated action against the owner of Big Splash following their failure to maintain the site and open over the past two summers. ACT Greens Deputy Leader and Member for Ginninderra, Jo Clay, says this is encouraging movement, with a consideration to terminate the … Continue reading “Greens welcome regulatory action on Big Splash”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37167,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37166\/revisions\/37167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}