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I also acknowledge the comments made by Minister Rattenbury that an enduring and long-term solution to this issue will be the transition of the private vehicle fleet in our territory over time to electric or hydrogen fuel cell-powered vehicles. Not only will that be good in terms of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and helping the territory achieve our 2045 goals around zero carbon emissions; it will also be a more cost-effective way to operate our transport fleet.

But that is not going to happen in the next 12 months. It will probably happen over the next 12 to 20 years, as the manufacture of internal combustion engines winds up. I understand that in Europe they will not be made anymore from around the mid-2020s, and I suspect the rest of the world will follow pretty quickly as the price of electric vehicles continues to fall. In the intervening period it is important that we do what we can to put downward pressure on fuel prices.

The government is also pursuing reforms that will put downward pressure on CTP prices to reduce the overall costs for motorists in our city as we make a transition to a fairer CTP scheme and we make a transition to a more environmentally sustainable and more cost-effective way of running our transport fleet in this city.

I commend this motion to the Assembly and thank members in advance for their rigorous participation in the select committee process.

Question resolved in the affirmative.

Administration and Procedure—Standing Committee

Proposed reference

MS LEE (Kurrajong) (11.37): I move:

That this Assembly:

(1) notes that:

(a) government school visits by MLAs serve a valuable purpose in increasing an MLA’s knowledge of the ACT school system and developing an appreciation of the talent and enthusiasm of students and teachers in ACT schools;

(b) recent publicity has highlighted the difficult arrangements that surround MLAs accepting invitations from government schools to attend activities and events at their school;

(d) no such restrictions are applied by independent and Catholic schools for visits by interested parliamentarians, at the Territory or at the Federal level;

(e) there is not a current written, publicly available policy for government schools to follow or for Parents and Citizens Associations to refer to when inviting MLAs to their school; and

(f) that such restrictions are not common in other jurisdictions; and

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