Page 713 - Week 05 - Wednesday, 5 July 1989
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upset. The average increase in official valuations in Hall Village is 75 per cent over the previous figures, whereas O'Malley at 43.2 per cent was the next largest increase. Will the Minister explain the reason for these substantial increases, and do the increases signify plans for the provision of substantial new developments in Hall?
MS FOLLETT: Mr Speaker, I do not have available to me in the Assembly the kind of detailed information which would permit me to confirm the statement that Dr Kinloch has made about the valuations in a particular area of Canberra, but I am able to say that the valuations are based on recent sales of land in the vicinity.
My guess would be that in the vicinity of Hall there has been in fact quite an increase in the price paid for land over the three-year period since the valuation was last undertaken. That is the basis on which the new land value is arrived at. It is a fairly simple mathematical matter. People who have received a notice of their land valuation have also received information on how they may appeal on that valuation and also on how they may seek further information from the Administration on aspects which they do not understand, such as how the valuation was arrived at.
I would suggest to Dr Kinloch that, if he has particular constituents who are experiencing that kind of difficulty or who wish to raise a matter of detail on their own block of land, I would be only too happy to assist to clarify the matter for those constituents to help them in any way that I can, as would my department.
DR KINLOCH: I ask a supplementary question. A residents group in Hall is going to have a residents rally, may I say, in Hall. May I ask whether some member of the rates department could possibly go to that meeting?
MS FOLLETT: The answer, of course, is yes. If they make an application to me or to the appropriate department, I am quite confident that all assistance will be made available to that group. They really only have to ask.
Preschool Review
MR KAINE: In view of the Deputy Chief Minister's defence of the other Ministers who cannot or will not answer questions, I would like to address one to him in his capacity as Minister for Education. I note that he has been raised to quite an eminent position by the newspaper, Public Eye, today, in which some statements are made about failure to answer correspondence. I would like to ask the Minister - and I am sure he will be able to answer this one - whether it is a fact that this organisation that is dealt with in this article has not received a response to its inquiry about the preschool review since April 23. If
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