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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2004 Week 09 Hansard (Tuesday, 17 August 2004) . . Page.. 3775 ..

Clause 110.

MR WOOD (Minister for Disability, Housing and Community Services, Minister for Urban Services, Minister for Police and Emergency Services, Minister for Arts and Heritage, and Acting Minister for Health) (8.41): I move amendment 34 circulated in my name [see schedule 3 at page 3803]. The change to this clause clarifies that notice of a reviewable decision must go to those with standing to appeal.

Amendment agreed to.

Clause 110, as amended, agreed to.

Clause 111.

MR WOOD (Minister for Disability, Housing and Community Services, Minister for Urban Services, Minister for Police and Emergency Services, Minister for Arts and Heritage, and Acting Minister for Health) (8.41): I move amendment 35 circulated in my name [see schedule 3 at page 3803]. This final amendment, which is required to effect changes to the standing rule, will amend clause 111 so that only those defined in clause 108A can appeal.

Amendment agreed to.

Clause 111, as amended, agreed to.

Clauses 112 to 129, by leave, taken together and agreed to.

Proposed new clause 129A.

MRS DUNNE (8.43): I move amendment No 1 circulated in my name on the green paper which inserts a new clause 129A [see schedule 5 at page 3812]. This important amendment relates to one of the issues of contention that was evident from the time this bill was first introduced in its present form—that is, what to do with the 2,500 or so unregistered Aboriginal places and objects which have been reported to the Heritage Council but that have not yet been registered. This matter has caused considerable concern across the community.

Some members of the indigenous community were desperately concerned that items of indigenous heritage would officially cease to exist and people would lose their memory of them. They said to me that this bill would create a huge amount of uncertainty for everyone in the community. They also said to me, “We want an orderly system so that we know where the heritage is. Anyone who purchases a block of land will know that there is at least a report about indigenous heritage on that site and, in a sense, they will know what they are buying. Indigenous heritage must be incorporated in an orderly way into the land management system.”

Those are not my words, Mr Speaker; those are the words of members of the indigenous community who said that they want orderly incorporation of their heritage into the land management system so that everybody knows what is there. There are 2,500 reported but

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