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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2002 Week 14 Hansard (10 December) . . Page.. 4171 ..

MRS DUNNE (continuing):

Seeing that this one will succeed and therefore mine will fail, I will not bother to talk about it.

Amendment agreed to.

Clause 11, as amended, agreed to.

Clause 12 agreed to.

Clause 13.

MRS DUNNE (9.09): Mr Speaker, the opposition will be opposing this clause. This goes to the substantive question of the statement of planning intent. We have already had a discussion about the nature of the statement of planning intent.

Many of the amendments the minister deals with in relation to the statement of planning intent go some way to clarifying the issue, but not to the satisfaction of the opposition. During the round-table process, I asked that the definition in the dictionary be more transparent or that there be, at some stage, a note indicating the frequency and the sorts of occasions on which a statement of planning intent would be issued. That has not been forthcoming, Mr Speaker, and I think it is unsatisfactory to find a new piece, a new instrument or a new device to be incorporated into legislation. When you go to the dictionary to look for the definition of what a statement of planning intent is, it says, "Go to section 13."There is no proper definition of what a statement of planning intent is.

There has been some movement on the part of the government towards addressing some of the concerns of the opposition, the crossbenchers, and the community. At this stage, those concerns are not satisfactorily addressed, from our point of view. As a result, we will be opposing the statement of planning intent.

MR CORBELL (Minister for Education, Youth and Family Services, Minister for Planning and Minister for Industrial Relations) (9.11): I seek leave to move amendments Nos 8 and 9, circulated in my name, together.

Leave granted.

MR CORBELL: Mr Speaker, I move amendments 8 and 9 circulated in my name [see schedule 6 at page 4192].

Amendments 8 and 9 deal with the issue of the statement of planning intent. Amendment 8 is the same as amendment 7, in that it provides for the statement of planning intent to be provided to members of the Assembly within 14 days after it is given to the authority, if the Assembly is not sitting within that 14-day period. It also requires that the minister needs to subsequently, in the next available sitting period, provide a copy of the statement of planning intent to the Assembly in session. In relation to amendment 8, it also makes consistent the periods of time to which Mrs Dunne alluded in her previous comments.

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