Page 250 - Week 02 - Wednesday, 7 March 2007
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(5) omit paragraph (2) (e), substitute
‘(e) notes that the Government is progressing measures to ensure that the Australian Capital Territory implements best practice sustainable urban planning and management.’.”.
Essentially, the first amendment is really just procedural. The second amendment states, “the government’s climate change strategy will be released soon”. It will; it is in the final throes of approval. Dr Foskey’s motion talks about a greenhouse strategy. The climate change strategy is a bit more up to date than that. There is a bit more to climate change than just greenhouse gases, so the approach of the strategy has been changed to reflect that.
The third amendment is merely procedural, and the fourth amendment talks about a change to Dr Foskey’s old paragraph 2 (d). Dr Foskey is saying she wants us to ensure that the government’s imminent greenhouse strategy incorporates X, Y and Z. We have had the draft strategy out in the community for consultation and people know what is in it. It is Dr Foskey’s intention, through this motion, to take the ground that the government has so ably taken in its movement forward on climate change strategy.
This strategy is something that evolved out of expert and community consultation; it did not evolve from the mind of some bright spark in the Greens party. This strategy is not an expression of Bob Brown’s election manifesto and it is not a reflection of Greens policy; it is a reflection of expert and community opinion coming together and moving forward together.
I will seek leave to change paragraph 2 so it says that the Assembly notes that the government’s climate change strategy will be released soon and also, of course, that the Assembly notes that the imminent climate change strategy intends to incorporate those targets of 60 per cent by 2050, together with mechanisms to strengthen the strategy.
I also wish to change paragraph 2 (d) by moving an amendment that states that the government’s imminent climate change strategy intends to incorporate those targets of 60 per cent by 2050. Of course, mechanisms will be put in place to strengthen those targets.
In paragraph 2 (e), Dr Foskey wants us to “establish the ACT as a centre of sustainability industries and a model for Australia and the rest of the world in sustainable urban planning and management”. My colleague Mr Corbell will address the urban planning and management issues. However, I do not have the faintest idea what Dr Foskey is talking about when she says that she wants the government to “establish the ACT as a centre of sustainability industries”.
DR FOSKEY: Come and ask me.
MR HARGREAVES: I would not waste my time. I am afraid that I do not have a clue what she is talking about and I suspect that there are many people around this town who share my bewilderment with respect to this proposal. As I mentioned before, I think that the ACT has been doing some very positive things. If my memory serves
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