Page 223 - Week 02 - Tuesday, 12 May 1992
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Petrol Levy : Payroll Tax
MR DE DOMENICO: Madam Speaker, my question without notice is to the Chief Minister in her finance capacity. I ask her: Will her Government be honouring its pre-election promise to remove the 3c a litre fuel levy? If the answer to that question is yes, will the Government also then give a commitment to reduce the payroll tax impost in the ACT, thus helping to create more jobs and, in particular, more youth jobs?
MS FOLLETT: I think I have answered this question more times than we would care to mention, Madam Speaker. Mr De Domenico again asks me to pre-empt what is in the budget. But I will say that if he cares to study the forward estimates he will see in those forward estimates that the petrol levy is ceased at the date at which it was due to be ceased.
On the question of payroll tax, Madam Speaker, I say again that it was Mr De Domenico's party in government which increased payroll tax from 6 per cent to 7 per cent. Further than that, Madam Speaker, as I have said many times, I will not pre-empt the budget.
Redevelopment of Section 10, City
MS ELLIS: My question is to the Minister for the Environment, Land and Planning. Now that the Federal Government has approved the recommendations made by the joint parliamentary committee on the redevelopment of part of section 10, City, will the Minister agree to the proposed redevelopment of the YMCA and Olympic Bowl sites? If the redevelopment is agreed to, can the Minister give an assurance that the lessees will pay full betterment?
MR WOOD: Madam Speaker, the YMCA and the lessee of the site of the former Olympic Bowl - that is, the adjoining sites across the road - have formally advised the Government that they wish to proceed with the redevelopment of the two areas of land combined. The Department of the Environment, Land and Planning and the National Capital Planning Authority - because they have a strong interest in this - are now assessing that advice. It will come to me subsequently, and any decision that I make will be based on the assessments of the proposal as submitted. If I subsequently agree to the redevelopment, I can assure you that the full betterment under existing conditions will be applied.
ACTION Buses - Advertising
MR STEVENSON: My question is to the Minister for Urban Services, Terry Connolly. Many people in Canberra have strong views on abortion and wish to present their case publicly to other people. A group of people who are opposed to abortion paid for the tiny feet advertisement that was displayed on the side of some ACTION buses. As this ad was cancelled without approval from the advertiser, would the Minister please indicate under which authority and guidelines the ad was initially accepted and later cancelled, and could he comment on the concern by many people in Canberra that such censorship would appear to be arbitrary and unjust?
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