Page 2768 - Week 08 - Thursday, 11 August 2016
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MR COE: Treasurer, why did you allow and waive the lease variation charge for the Brumbies site in Griffith if you do not think club sites in residential areas should be redeveloped?
MR BARR: I have not said that I do not think club sites can be redeveloped. All I have said is that I do not think it should be an automatic entitlement for redevelopment. The planning system should not be changed to an automatic presumption that there will be a variation and that clubs have some entitlement to vary their lease at any point in time because they might hit some financial difficulty.
In relation to the Brumbies site, following a detailed process that involved Assembly committee inquiries and recommendations in support of a change to the zoning in that area, the government agreed that there would be a community benefit—
Mr Hanson: Where did that community benefit go?
MR BARR: That community benefit has gone to the Brumbies.
Mr Hanson: Where is it?
MR BARR: It has gone to the Brumbies and it is there in bricks and mortar—
Mr Coe interjecting—
MR BARR: The new headquarters and sports facility at the University of Canberra. There is a $15 million building that—
Mr Hanson interjecting—
MADAM SPEAKER: Order, Mr Coe! Mr Hanson, come to order!
MR BARR: There is a $15 million building on the University of Canberra campus which the Brumbies have a long-term lease on. Their contribution to that was $5 million.
Opposition members interjecting—
MADAM SPEAKER: Come to order, Mr Coe! Mr Wall!
MR BARR: The ACT government made a $5 million contribution; the University of Canberra made a $5 million contribution; and the Brumbies made a $5 million contribution.
Mr Hanson: What did they get for it?
MR BARR: Headquarters for 30 years. (Time expired.)
MADAM SPEAKER: Supplementary?
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