Page 1931 - Week 07 - Thursday, 23 August 2007
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received additional funding to proceed with further work to make more and more of its work available online. I am sure it will continue to do so into the future. So whilst, again, I understand the points Dr Foskey is making, I do not necessarily think that this legislation is the appropriate way to address her concerns. I am sure that ACTPLA’s enthusiastic embrace of the internet will continue and that the sorts of public access that Dr Foskey is talking about will be provided.
Clause 28 agreed to.
Clause 29 agreed to.
Clauses 30 to 44, by leave, taken together.
MR SESELJA (Molonglo) (12.12): The opposition will be opposing these clauses. It is interesting that the minister laughs, because I am sure that if this minister had been planning minister back in 2002, we would not see the Land Development Agency in its current form. I do not mind betting that this minister has inherited a Land Development Agency that he does not want. He has been lumped with it by his predecessor and that is why we will oppose it.
Mr Barr: It is not in my portfolio.
MR SESELJA: Well, that is right.
Mr Barr: It sits with the Chief Minister.
MR SESELJA: Yes, the Chief Minister had to take that away from Minister Corbell, because under his leadership, of course, we were never going to see any progress towards the stated goals of the Land Development Agency. We think the Land Development Agency has been an abject failure. Let me read from the speech of the former planning minister, Simon Corbell, on the Land Development Agency. He said:
The government will ensure that the land release program delivers a sustainable balance between strategic planning objectives, a fair return on the territory’s land asset from land sales, and housing affordability.
What a failure the government has been in this area, an absolute failure. He went on to say:
The move towards greater government land development will contribute to assisting housing affordability through two main mechanisms:
• firstly, by ensuring adequate land supply some pressure will be taken off land prices—
apparently—
bringing land ownership closer for many families and small businesses …
How is the minister going with that?
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