Page 1931 - Week 07 - Thursday, 13 August 2020

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categorical view on all the matters raised and is not able to report before the end of the this Assembly. However, given the importance of these matters to the constitutional arrangements of the territory and the legislative rights of MLAs, it will be important that the Standing Committee on Administration and Procedure of the Tenth Assembly consider the issues raised and deal with the matters that have been provided.

I encourage all members to read the discussion paper and the submissions made by the two clerks of the commonwealth parliament. It will fall to the Standing Committee on Administration and Procedure of the Tenth Assembly to finalise a report and to make recommendations to this place about the practices and principles that ought to prevail. In accordance with standing order 16(d), it will, of course, be open to that committee to make use of the evidence and records of this administration and procedure committee of the Ninth Assembly to inform its deliberations.

Education, Employment and Youth Affairs—Standing Committee

Statement by chair

MR PETTERSSON (Yerrabi) (11.05): Pursuant to standing order 246A, I wish to make a statement on behalf of the Standing Committee on Education, Employment and Youth Affairs relating to statutory appointments in accordance with continuing resolution 5A. I wish to inform the Assembly that during the applicable reporting period—1 January 2020 to 30 June 2020—the standing committee considered a total of 12 appointments and reappointments to the following bodies:

Canberra Institute of Technology Board;

Board of the ACT Teacher Quality Institute; and

University of Canberra Council.

I now table a schedule of the statutory appointments considered by the committee during this period:

Education, Employment and Youth Affairs—Standing Committee—Schedule of Statutory Appointments—9th Assembly—Period 1 January to 30 June 2020.

Planning and Urban Renewal—Standing Committee

Statement by chair

MS LE COUTEUR (Murrumbidgee) (11.06): Pursuant to standing order 246A, I wish to make a statement on behalf of the Standing Committee on Planning and Urban Renewal relating to petition number 5-20. This petition was received by the Assembly on 18 June 2020 and the Assembly resolved to refer the petition to the committee.

The petitioners sought to draw to the attention of the Assembly their concern that community facility zoned parkland adjacent to Cooleman Court and homes in Watling Place, Weston, is to be destroyed to provide a car park to supplement a perceived shortage of parking spaces, due to the fact that the promised shops in Molonglo have not been built. The petition also sought to call on the government to preserve the


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