Page 2746 - Week 08 - Thursday, 24 August 2006
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Authority has responsibility for and for which this government has provided funding. In particular, members have not addressed the fact that, since the establishment of the Planning and Land Authority and the Land Development Agency, we have seen one of the most significant development phases this city has faced since self-government, and we have seen two agencies respond to one of the broadest range of agendas that this city has ever put in place on planning and development.
We have changed the metropolitan plan. We have a new urban development area in Molonglo, a complete change to the way the metropolitan structure of this city has been put in place since the 1950s. We have put in place, for the first time, targets on shifting transport activity from private motorcar to the public transport and sustainable transport sector—the first time any government has done that. We have put in place a complete rewrite of the Land Act, a complete reform of the underlying legislation of government planning and development in the city—the first time that has been done since self-government.
We have put in place measures to bring in public sector land development. We have put in place measures to grow better looking, more liveable, more effective neighbourhoods in those greenfields areas. We have put in place measures to reduce water use in developments. We have put in place measures to increase the energy efficiency of dwellings. We have done this on a broad scale, on a comprehensive scale and on a scale that is unprecedented in the history of self-government, and we have done it in a way where we now have people saying that ACTPLA is a progressive and an effective planning authority which is responding to the challenges that it faces and is engaged in and talking with industry and the community. I congratulate the staff from ACTPLA and LDA for the work they are doing, and I commend the budget for ACTPLA to the Assembly.
MR SPEAKER: The minister’s time has expired.
Proposed expenditure agreed to.
Proposed expenditure—Part 1.13—Department of Disability, Housing and Community Services, $173,241,000 (net cost of outputs), $21,758,000 (capital injection) and $28,297,000 (payments on behalf of the territory), totalling $223,296,000.
MRS BURKE (Molonglo) (11.22): The disability housing and community services portfolio is certainly responsible for a broad range of human services and the policies and programs that accompany such services. Disability services, the Assembly would be aware, is an area with a constant need for review of funding levels and exactly how the services need to be refined, adjusted and, most definitely, remain centred on the client as a priority.
I was particularly interested in the recent decision taken to conduct a trial on the delivery of disability group home services in the ACT. The Gallop report made this recommendation:
The Disability Program should not continue to be responsible as landlord for providing accommodation for its clients. Instead, disabled people should have the
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