Page 1583 - Week 05 - Thursday, 18 April 1991
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this out. We would have had to take some time and we would have had to come back to this Assembly and say, "We cannot do the job in the time; we cannot do it appropriately. You are going to have to change your dates or accept that we are not going to give you a report". In lots of ways it would have been better not to have given a report than to give one that establishes confidence in something that ought not to have confidence in it.
With reference to appeals, it is quite clear to me that the situation that has developed in Tuthill Place, Calwell, would not be resolved by the new legislation.
Mr Jensen: That is not so.
Mr Collaery: Come to my office tomorrow; I will explain it to you.
MR MOORE: That is true. It seems to me that what we have to establish is that any appeal system is available to all people to appeal on any development. The appeal system would be an absolute disaster for development if it were not quick, efficient and cheap. What you have to do is make sure that it is quick, efficient and cheap.
Every development should have a public notification. It should go in the principal newspaper of the Territory, at this stage, the Canberra Times. It should be notified; it should go on the same day each week and in the same place - perhaps the public notices section of the paper, perhaps on a Thursday, perhaps the Canberra Times. Not only that; it should happen on the site. There should be at least a one-metre by one-metre sign on the site that says to people, "This is what is going to go here and these are the methods that you can use to appeal". It is not too late; those things can be put into the legislation.
Mr Jensen interjected before, "It is not true", and Mr Collaery joined him. I would be delighted to find out that I am wrong there. I certainly respect Mr Collaery's knowledge of appeals and appeal systems, and I would be delighted to have him explain that to me. I shall take up his offer and hope that, in fact, I am wrong.
The other issue that I would like to raise this afternoon, Mr Speaker, is that of the Chief Planner and a lease administrator. I believe that the leasehold system is so critical to our planning that this legislation should include the appointment of a lease administrator, and that he and the Chief Planner ought to be - straight out of Rally policy, Bernard - directly responsible to the Minister in charge.
Finally, I have spoken on many occasions about the leasehold system, Mr Speaker. I would like to quote, on the leasehold system, from the Territory Planning Authority's key issues paper on the Territory Plan which David Hall drew attention to. It said:
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