Page 3878 - Week 12 - Thursday, 21 October 1993

MINISTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT, LAND AND PLANNING

LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY QUESTION

QUESTION NO 1003

Tuggeranong Homestead

Ms Szuty - asked the Minister for the Environment, Land and Planning

(1) Who are the current leaseholders of the property known as the Tuggeranong

Homestead (Block 1 Section 450 Richardson).

(2) Who are the principals if the answer is a company or companies.

(3) Are the current lessees the original signatories to the lease granted in 1980.

(4) If not when did they become lessees.

(5) Is the lease of 2 September 1980 still in force.

(6) Have clauses 2(a-c) and 3(a-cc) of the original lease signed 2 September 1980,

been complied with.

(7) Can the Minister furnish details of the restorations and refurbishment which have

been carried out in compliance with these clauses and Schedule "B" of the 1980

lease.

(8) As the original term of the lease has now expired, has the Government taken any

action under clause 5(a-e) of the original lease in relation to any breaches of the

lease.

(9) On what basis was the lease restored to the current leaseholders after the former

Alliance Government attempted to determine the lease in 1990.

Mr Wood - the answer to the Members questions are as follows:

(1) The Tuggeranong Pastoral Company Pty. Ltd. currently occupy the Tuggeranong

Homestead on a month to month tenancy basis subject to the conditions of the

previous lease granted in 1980.

(2) The principals of the -Tuggeranong Pastoral Company Pty. Ltd. are John and Lyn

Anderson and Randall McFie.

(3) The current principals of the Tuggeranong Pastoral Company Pty. Ltd. were not the

original signatories to the lease granted in 1980.