Page 1718 - Week 05 - Thursday, 11 May 2017

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record is about 253, I think 30 was a pretty good effort. I spent the lunch break heading over to the ANU law school and leading a group of law students and law lecturers in the “nutbush”. There are clear links, of course, between exercise and mental wellbeing. Having had the experience of research in wellbeing in law students when I was a lecturer, I am glad to see the initiatives are ongoing.

I know that the ACT government has done a lot in this sphere as well. I congratulate it on some of the initiatives it has taken on. Minister Fitzharris referred to the healthy weight initiative. There is also the find fitness outdoors website that Minister Shane Rattenbury, the then sports minister, launched in 2015, which will give all Canberrans the opportunity to not only get their physical activity on the books but also appreciate our bush capital even more.

Discussion concluded.

City Renewal Authority and Suburban Land Agency Bill 2017

Debate resumed from 9 May 2017.

Detail stage

Clause 1 agreed to.

Clauses 2 to 6, by leave, taken together and agreed to.

Clause 7.

MR BARR (Kurrajong—Chief Minister, Treasurer, Minister for Economic Development and Minister for Tourism and Major Events) (4.12): Pursuant to standing order 182A(a) and (b), I seek leave to move amendments to this bill that are urgent, minor or technical in nature.

Leave granted.

MR BARR: I move amendment No 1 circulated in my name and table a supplementary explanatory statement to the government amendments [see schedule 2 at page 1772]. This amendment inserts a new note at clause 7 of the bill referring to the relevant sections of the Financial Management Act 1996 to clarify that if the CRA is prescribed by the financial management guidelines it will be a territory authority for the purposes of the Financial Management Act 1996.

Amendment agreed to.

Clause 7, as amended, agreed to.

Clause 8.

MS LE COUTEUR (Murrumbidgee) (4.14): I move amendment No 1 circulated in my name [see schedule 3 at page 1776]. What we are proposing here is that, instead


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