Page 4098 - Week 11 - Thursday, 21 September 2017
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cyber-focused cloud platform Azure in partnership with Canberra Data Centres’ highly secure facilities in Canberra. Canberra Data Centres is one of the few data centre providers worldwide that can handle up to top-secret data.
These investments demonstrate how Canberra is now seen globally as a destination for investment and as a hub for innovation in cybersecurity and ICT. But we cannot just sit back now and assume that these opportunities will continue to come to our city. That is why next month I will lead a delegation to the west coast of the United States to promote our city as a pivotal cybersecurity destination in Australia and drive further growth in our local industry.
Suburban Land Agency—affordable housing
MS LE COUTEUR: My question is to the Minister for Housing and Suburban Development and relates to the statement of expectations for the Suburban Land Agency, which you released this morning. Minister, as with the City Renewal Authority, the statement of expectations for the SLA barely mentions affordable housing and does not include affordable housing targets. When will you be setting the affordable housing targets required by the agency’s act?
MS BERRY: As Ms Le Couteur knows, under the parliamentary agreement we are having a conversation with the community around public and affordable housing, and a summit on 17 October. The act and the requirements in the act will be provided for through a disallowable instrument.
MS LE COUTEUR: Minister, in your communications with the board of the SLA, have you at any point clearly told them that you expect the emphasis to be on affordable housing and, if not, when will you do so?
MS BERRY: Yes, I have.
MR STEEL: Minister, how is the towards affordable housing strategy going to have a discussion around these issues?
MS BERRY: There have been considerable consultations with all stakeholders in the community who have wanted to play a part in the conversations leading up to the summit on 17 October. It has been a really great and informative process where all people who have wanted to be engaged, including developers, property group, housing providers, architects, real estate agents, public housing tenants and community housing operators, have been involved in the conversation so far. With over 30 or so different stakeholder events it has been a very big conversation, and when we bring that all together at the summit on 17 October it will give us a really great opportunity to provide feedback to the community about what we have heard. We can then go to the next step in implementing a strategy for affordable housing in the ACT.
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