Page 503 - Week 02 - Thursday, 22 February 1990
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I congratulate Mr Kaine on the drafts that he has put on the table, but he has produced two draft Bills of a package of six pieces of legislation that is required. I believe that only when the full package of legislation is in place and its operation is well understood, not only by this Assembly but also by the community, including developers, community groups, and people in the street who do not have a particular interest in land use, will we clear up the constant problems that have arisen over the many years, to which both Mr Moore and Mr Whalan have spoken so eloquently.
Like anybody in this Assembly and the community who cares about the planned nature of Canberra, I look forward to that legislation. I think it will resolve many of the difficulties that have plagued us. It will enable us to keep Canberra the planned and beautiful city that it is. It will not be threatened by ill-advised development or uncontrolled speculation. It will not be bedevilled by the spectre of corruption and criminality that has been the case in all matters to do with development for so many years.
I look forward to that legislation. I would have been very pleased to bring it to this Assembly. From the document that Mr Kaine has put out this morning, I am aware that what he will bring to this Assembly in time will probably be very closely related to the kind of legislation that I would have brought to this Assembly.
Mr Moore: And that Mr Mant would have brought to this Assembly.
MS FOLLETT: Exactly so. We have all been advised by the same people; we are all using the same draftspersons, and I expect that the legislation that comes forward will be largely uncontroversial. But let us not be under the misapprehension that the drafts that Mr Kaine has brought forward today solve the planning problems in the ACT; they do not. A comprehensive package of legislation, including in particular the approvals and orders legislation, and the land and leasing legislation, must solve those problems. I look forward to seeing that legislation, not by the end of February, as promised by the Alliance Government, unfortunately, but in due course.
MR COLLAERY (Attorney-General) (4.14): The basis of our leasehold system is the Seat of Government Act 1910. The debates on that Act, which I looked at once, make interesting reading. The basis was that lands would be given by the State of New South Wales to us, as the Commonwealth, in custodianship, to be dealt with wisely and properly for a seat of government that would meet all the aspirations that some of our members here today have mentioned. Those aspirations included clearly a number of important aspects of creating a system of non-freehold tenure, a leasehold system, so that there would not be land
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