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amendment to this amendment and will enable the ACT Planning and Land Authority to exercise its discretion not to make part of the draft plan variation or background paper publicly available.
MR SESELJA (Molonglo) (5.18): We will support this amendment. It is good to be bringing this into the act and making it very clear exactly what kind of circumstances there will be to not make part of the draft plan variation or background paper available.
Amendment agreed to.
Clause 65, as amended, agreed to.
Clauses 66 to 86, by leave, taken together and agreed to.
Clause 87.
DR FOSKEY (Molonglo) (5.19): I will be opposing this clause. I have a general concern about these technical amendments. Rezoning for future urban use or rezoning within the context of future urban use could have wide-ranging impacts. This legislation should mandate simple requirements to ensure that community councils are advised, where relevant, and that announcements are also made through the website and so on.
I also use debate on this clause to register my ongoing concerns with the marginalisation of the planning and environment committee of the Assembly. I recognise that full-scale inquiries into technical amendments might be unworkable, and there have been issues with workloads that are too high, but much as the public accounts committee can remain abreast of Auditor-General reports—to receive them, get a briefing on them, and decide whether to do further investigations—the planning and environment committee ought to be kept up to date on territory plan amendments, technical and otherwise, and again make that decision as to whether or not they will pursue them.
MR BARR (Molonglo—Minister for Education and Training, Minister for Planning, Minister for Tourism, Sport and Recreation, Minister for Industrial Relations) (5.20): I will shortly be moving amendment No 16 circulated in my name. I inform Dr Foskey that this amendment will address some of the concerns she has raised. I note the other issues she has raised and notify the Assembly that the government will consider amending this clause at a subsequent date.
Clause 87 agreed to.
Clause 88.
MR BARR (Molonglo—Minister for Education and Training, Minister for Planning, Minister for Tourism, Sport and Recreation, Minister for Industrial Relations) (5.22): I move amendment No 16 circulated in my name [see schedule 1 at page 2065].
This amendment substitutes a new clause, 88 (1) (b), into the bill. This clause requires all technical variations to be subject to public consultation for a minimum of
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