Page 1980 - Week 07 - Thursday, 23 August 2007
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MR BARR (Molonglo—Minister for Education and Training, Minister for Planning, Minister for Tourism, Sport and Recreation, Minister for Industrial Relations) (4.56): I note Dr Foskey’s comments. I welcome the support of the shadow minister, and the government will be supporting these clauses.
Clause 47 agreed to.
Clause 48 agreed to.
Clause 49 agreed to.
Clause 50.
MR BARR (Molonglo—Minister for Education and Training, Minister for Planning, Minister for Tourism, Sport and Recreation, Minister for Industrial Relations) (4.57): I move amendment No 7 circulated in my name [see schedule 1 at page 2065].
This amendment inserts a new item in clause 50 of the bill to enable the territory plan to provide for affordable housing. It underlines the capacity of the territory plan to provide for affordable housing. This amendment was suggested in the light of some interstate court decisions that questioned whether measures related to affordable housing were authorised by the relevant statutory plan under the concept of sustainability.
MR SESELJA (Molonglo) (4.57): This seems to us like a good amendment. We have no problem with it. It is important not only to have it in the territory plan but that the government through all of its agencies contributes towards there being affordable housing. It is important that we take measures to make specific pockets and parcels of land affordable. It is important that we seek broadly to make land on the outskirts of Canberra more affordable so that first home buyers have a reasonable prospect of getting into the market. So I welcome the words in here but it is incumbent upon the government for all of its agencies and in all of its policies to be contributing to this end. Unfortunately that is not something we have seen over the past few years.
Amendment agreed to.
Clause 50, as amended, agreed to.
Clauses 51 and 52, by leave, taken together and agreed to.
Clause 53.
MR BARR (Molonglo—Minister for Education and Training, Minister for Planning, Minister for Tourism, Sport and Recreation, Minister for Industrial Relations) (4.58): I seek leave to move amendments Nos 8 to 10 circulated in my name together.
Leave granted.
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