Page 1969 - Week 06 - Wednesday, 7 June 2017

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(e) the Freedom of Information Act 2016, due to commence on 1 January 2018, will build on and enhance the Government’s commitment to open, transparent government;

(f) the Government has provided $954 000 in the 2017-18 Budget to support implementation of the new legislation;

(g) transparency and open government facilitate meaningful community engagement and are core components of a well-functioning democracy;

(h) best-practice community engagement involves ensuring that community members have a genuine influence over government decisions that affect them and are provided with the information needed to meaningfully participate and contribute;

(i) ACT Public Service agencies responding to FOI requests from the Canberra community do so independent of the political process and the Government of the day does not intervene; and

(j) the factors which may serve as a basis for redacting information are clearly set out in the Freedom of Information Act 1989 and include provisions such as those that protect the privacy of individuals; and

(2) calls on the Government to:

(a) provide the following information to the Assembly on or before the first sitting day in August:

(i) the policy for using community facilities zoned (CFZ) land for social housing;

(ii) how many social housing dwellings are currently located on CFZ land; and

(iii) how many remaining undeveloped CFZ blocks exist across the ACT;

(b) continue its commitment to pre-DA consultation for all public housing development proposals on CFZ land; and

(c) continue to improve community engagement processes across the Government.”.

I agree to the government providing some additional detail about how we make decisions on what to build on community facilities zoned land and how much we have done across the ACT. My amendment also calls for agreement for the continuation of our commitment to undertake predevelopment application consultation for all public housing development proposals on community facilities zoned land. I will ensure that this information is provided by the next sitting period.

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