Page 3325 - Week 11 - Wednesday, 18 September 2013
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If you do not like the call-in power in general, remove it from the planning act. You do not use it for the best times and then not use it on the times you do not agree. That is not appropriate. The call-in power is there for appropriate use in appropriate circumstances.
Mr Coe interjecting—
Mr Hanson interjecting—
MADAM SPEAKER: Mr Coe and Mr Hanson, order!
Mr Coe: Like now?
MS GALLAGHER: For it to be used now, Mr Coe, you would need a development application actually to have been lodged. It has not. Mr Coe decides that prior to any consultation occurring, prior to anything happening, something should just be stopped. Go and say that to every person who is proposing a potential development in Canberra. Send the message that anyone proposing a potential development in Canberra could have that development stopped by the Assembly before they even got past the first step if Mr Coe feels like it.
Is that seriously the message that we want to send about how we do business in Canberra? Mr Wall said on radio today—I do not know if he knew that he was not correct—that the call-in power stops consultation. It does not. The only thing that the call-in power changes is the decision-maker in relation to a proposal and the right to access third-party appeal or go to ACAT to continue to agitate against the proposal. That is what it changes. It does not change anything about the consultation process in the lead-up in relation to the proponent. It does not change anything. All of that must continue.
As you would know from reading the act, there is a whole set of criteria that need to be followed before the call-in power can be used. People are, I think, either confusing others, with an unfair purpose in mind, by trying to scare people and say that the call-in power could be used to extinguish consultation rights for potentially affected parties. That is simply not correct.
What affected parties need to do is this, and I know the Uriarra residents will do it. Uriarra is a lovely place to live. It is an exquisite place to live. The community open day, with the naming of Coree, was a lovely day—a day that sits in my memory, a lovely day being Chief Minister of a beautiful city. I think many more Canberrans would love to live out in Uriarra if they went out there and had a look at how lovely that place is.
There has not been any stronger supporter of Uriarra than this government. It was this government that took the political decision to rebuild the village after the fires, despite the costs involved with that. It was this government that directed ACTEW to connect water and sewerage out there. The ICRC made a criticism that it was not efficient and
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