Page 3207 - Week 09 - Wednesday, 23 August 2017

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Question put:

That the amendment be agreed to.

The Assembly voted—

Ayes 13		Noes 9
Mr Barr	Ms Le Couteur	Mr Coe	Mr Parton
Ms Berry	Ms Orr	Mr Hanson	Mr Wall
Ms Burch	Mr Pettersson	Mrs Jones
Ms Cheyne	Mr Ramsay	Mrs Kikkert
Ms Cody	Mr Rattenbury	Ms Lawder
Ms Fitzharris	Mr Steel	Ms Lee
Mr Gentleman		Mr Milligan

Question resolved in the affirmative.

Amendment agreed to.

Original question, as amended, resolved in the affirmative.

Population growth

MR PETTERSSON (Yerrabi) (11.38): I move:

That this Assembly:

(1) notes that:

(a) the ACT has seen a population increase from 356 586 people in 2011 to 406 403 people by the end of 2016, equating to growth of more than 11 percent in this period, the fastest growth rate of any State or Territory;

(b) in the same period the number of families in the ACT has risen from 93 397 to 102 036;

(c) Canberra’s population grew by 7000 people in 2016 alone, and is projected to continue at 1.5 percent per year into the 2020s; and

(d) much of this growth has been in Canberra’s north, with the Gungahlin region growing by almost 24 000 people in the past five years;

(2) also notes that the ACT Government has, and continues to, enact forward thinking policy to accommodate this population growth, as evidenced by the $2.8 billion infrastructure investment program delivered in the 2017 Budget which includes:

(a) building Light Rail and investing $54 million on upgrading the Territory’s roads;

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