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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2002 Week 14 Hansard (12 December) . . Page.. 4470 ..

Amendment negatived.

MR CORBELL ( Minister for Education, Youth and Family Services, Minister for Planning and Minister for Industrial Relations) (8.10): I move amendment 29 circulated in my name [see schedule 1 at page 4499].

This amendment adds the field of engineering to clause 58 (2). Clause 58 (2) lists the range of fields of expertise that should be sought to be included on the board of the land agency. This flows from the report of the Standing Committee on Planning and Environment, which outlines that it is the view of a number of professions in the city that construction expertise needs to be included in the skills available on the board of the land agency.

The government is proposing to add the broad term "engineering", which allows for a range of disciplines, including construction, to be acknowledged and hopefully accommodated in appointments to the land agency board.

MS TUCKER (8.11): We support this amendment. It was a suggestion we put at the round table.

Amendment agreed to.

MR CORBELL ( Minister for Education, Youth and Family Services, Minister for Planning and Minister for Industrial Relations) (8.12): I move amendment 30 circulated in my name [see schedule 1 at page 4499].

This is a minor correction to clause 60.

Amendment agreed to.

MR CORBELL ( Minister for Education, Youth and Family Services, Minister for Planning and Minister for Industrial Relations) (8.12): I move amendment 31 circulated in my name [see schedule 1 at page 4499].

Again, this amendment makes uniform the period of time within which the chairperson of the land agency must report to the minister about a disclosure of interest.

MRS DUNNE (8.13): The Liberal opposition will be supporting this amendment, because we are all in favour of uniformity when it comes to reporting dates so that people have predictability. We do not favour uniformity in everything, but here we want predictability.

Amendment agreed to.

MS DUNDAS (8.13): I rise to speak about this whole chapter as now amended and the idea of the land agency. The ACT Democrats support the land agency. The ACT Democrats support the introduction of public land development. A public land developer has the ability to take greater account of the social and environmental benefits of development and not just flog off land to the highest bidder.

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