Page 1742 - Week 05 - Wednesday, 5 May 2010

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In conclusion, we will be voting against the amendment moved by Ms Le Couteur. We urge the Assembly and the government to take a different stance on this issue and to show some leadership for the people of Dunlop.

Ms Le Couteur: I understand I can close the debate on my amendment.

MR SPEAKER: Ms Le Couteur, you have spoken; I am sorry, you cannot have the call unless you seek leave.

Question put:

That Ms Le Couteur’s amendment be agreed to.

The Assembly voted—

Ayes 10		Noes 5
Mr Barr	Ms Hunter	Mr Coe
Ms Bresnan	Ms Le Couteur	Mr Doszpot
Ms Burch	Ms Porter	Mr Hanson
Ms Gallagher	Mr Rattenbury	Mr Seselja
Mr Hargreaves	Mr Stanhope	Mr Smyth

Question so resolved in the affirmative.

Motion, as amended, agreed to.

Land—release

MS PORTER (Ginninderra) (12.07): I move:

That this Assembly:

(1) notes:

(a) last month’s CommSec State of the States report, which ranks the ACT as the best performing economy in the country;

(b) CommSec commentary that this performance is, to a considerable degree, attributable to the ACT government’s accelerated land release program, and the impact of these releases on residential construction activity; and

(c) the recent Access Economics Business Outlook released 27 April 2010 which stated “… the ACT benefited from being one of the earlier jurisdictions to recognise the need to increase the pace of land release … the greater availability of land and houses means that population growth is still on the up at a time when it has turned down for Australia as a whole”; and

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