Page 2089 - Week 07 - Thursday, 20 August 2020
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I consider the recommendations in this report valuable and I am pleased to say that the ACT government is already working with the community on many of the issues raised in the report. Since receiving the report, the government has made decisions and announcements, particularly in addressing urban canopy and our urban forest. The recovery work we have already seen in Namadgi picks up many of the themes raised in the report, and I wish to acknowledge the work done by the park care and catchment groups as part of the recovery.
In conclusion, this report is a timely reminder that we cannot afford to lose momentum in response to the climate emergency. We can be proud of everything that we have achieved so far in reducing our emissions and adapting to climate change but there is much more that we need to do, and the recent summer is evidence that we have no time to waste. I would like to thank the members of the Climate Council for their work on this report. I believe it is very valuable for them to have brought both their own expertise to this but also to have engaged the community at a time when the community was feeling that it had been quite a bruising summer. I think that that in itself was a valuable exercise in part of the healing process. So I commend the council’s Learning from Canberra’s Climate-Fuelled Summer of Crisis to the Assembly and encourage members to take the opportunity to look through the findings.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Environment—yellow box woodland
MR GENTLEMAN (Brindabella—Manager of Government Business, Minister for Advanced Technology and Space Industries, Minister for the Environment and Heritage, Minister for Planning and Land Management, Minister for Police and Emergency Services and Minister for Urban Renewal) (2.51): Pursuant to standing order 211, I move:
That the Assembly take note of the following paper:
Yellow Box Woodland Ecosystems—Protection—Response to the resolution of the Assembly of 20 February 2020.
MR RATTENBURY (Kurrajong—Minister for Climate Change and Sustainability, Minister for Corrections and Justice Health, Minister for Justice, Consumer Affairs and Road Safety and Minister for Mental Health) (2.51): This will be a much shorter set of comments. I welcome this report back to the Assembly. This area in the north of Watson is an area that, obviously, sits between Antill Street and the Mount Majura and Mount Ainslie nature reserve areas. The reason I brought on this motion earlier in the year was to ensure that we protected this area and looked to make it a contiguous part of the nature reserve, rather than seeing development in that area which, under the CZ6 zoning, could be a possibility. To take this opportunity to look at the area which does contain yellow box, Blakely’s red gum and endangered woodland communities, I think, is very valuable.
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