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I have asked the ACT Planning Authority to ensure that the spirit as well as the letter of the guidelines is taken into account when considering redevelopment proposals in area B1 and Kingston-Griffith area B2. I am confident that this will be done and that the highest expectations of me and the PDI Committee will be realised.
I also advise members that the guidelines for the Forrest-Red Hill-Deakin-Griffith historic areas will be finalised shortly, having been considered recently by the PDI Committee. Consideration of guidelines for that part of the historic areas known as Old Red Hill will be delayed until the Heritage Council of the ACT reports on it in July and its report is considered by the committee. In addition, I recently announced that guidelines for residential redevelopment in all other residential areas would be prepared by the ACT Planning Authority in consultation with the public, community groups, the building industry and relevant professional institutes. Madam Speaker, I have presented these guidelines, and I commend them to the house.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
MINISTERIAL ADVISORY COUNCIL ON PUBLIC EDUCATION
Report
MR WOOD (Minister for Education and Training, Minister for the Arts and Minister for the Environment, Land and Planning) (3.13): Madam Speaker, for the information of members, I present the report of the Ministerial Advisory Council on Public Education, and I move:
That the Assembly takes note of the paper.
Madam Speaker, consistent with the Follett Labor Government's strong commitment to community consultation, in late 1992 the Government embarked on a major consultative process designed to ensure community involvement in planning public schooling. The Follett Labor Government established the Ministerial Advisory Council on Public Education, or MACPE, in October 1992 to provide publicly available advice to Government on priorities for ACT government schooling.
The council is one of two community representative bodies established by this Government to honour the commitment we made at the last election to provide for broad community consultation in education. The other body is the Ministerial Consultative Committee on Non-Government Schools. The Ministerial Advisory Council on Public Education has an independent chairperson, Ms Di Mildern, and comprises members nominated by education interest groups such as the Canberra Pre-School Society, the ACT Council of Parents and Citizens Associations and the Australian Education Union, as well as a number of independent ministerial nominees.
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