Page 1769 - Week 07 - Tuesday, 15 June 1993
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Betterment Tax
MR MOORE: Madam Speaker, my question is directed to Mr Wood, as Minister for the Environment, Land and Planning. Will the Minister be releasing his discussion paper on reforming a betterment charging system which he mentioned on ABC radio in April this year? Will the discussion paper deal with issues such as the problems with betterment of block 1, section 29, Campbell, the APU development next to St Thomas More's school, as well as the provisions made for charging for betterment on such developments at North Watson? If so, will such reforms be made available to this Assembly before the draft variation on North Watson is debated in the Assembly?
MR WOOD: Madam Speaker, the question of the betterment tax issue is one for the Government. Before anything else happens I will be taking a paper to the Government. I would not want to pre-empt what the Government may do. I certainly acknowledge that betterment is a key issue in Canberra. It is one of very great interest for all Canberrans, and I do not think the Government would act without some broader discussion. But let me first take the matter to Cabinet. As for block 1, section 29, Campbell, I am not sure what that is. Give me a street number.
Mr Moore: Vasey Crescent, aged persons units development.
MR WOOD: Aged persons units. That is all right. Block and section numbers have me running to the block and section map to interpret, I have to say.
Mr Moore: That is why I said "next to St Thomas More's school".
MR WOOD: Yes. I would have to look at that. I am not aware of the background of that. Our discussion obviously would encompass all matters of lease change.
Ms Follett: I ask that further questions be placed on the notice paper.
ATTORNEY-GENERAL
Motion of Want of Confiden
ce
MR STEVENSON (3.11): Madam Speaker, I seek leave to move the motion of no confidence in Mr Connolly standing in my name.
Leave granted.
MR STEVENSON: I move:
That -
(1) noting that, on 13 May, this Assembly resolved to have an independent inquiry held into the form and delivery of emergency services in the ACT;
(2) noting that on 10 June Mr Connolly announced that the Police Rescue Squad would be disbanded by 1 July and its major metropolitan functions passed to the Fire Brigade; and
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