Page 76 - Week 01 - Tuesday, 12 February 2019

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The Government acknowledges that there are challenges in appropriately balancing equity across all residential rate payers through the use of a single set of rating factors for houses and units.

Of course I absolutely agree, as does the OCN, I believe. This is because in the ACT rates are charged on the basis of land value, where units and houses do not have comparable ownership of land. Charging rates on the basis of market value would to a very large extent solve this problem. A $500,000 home would pay the same rates regardless of whether it was an apartment, a townhouse, a duplex or a standalone house. Thus the equity issues are, to quite a large extent, fixed.

In conclusion, I strongly support the government’s commitment to a review. Now I just want to make sure that it is a good review that focuses on fairness as well as economic efficiency.

Question resolved in the affirmative.

ACT Health—independent review into workplace culture

MR GENTLEMAN (Brindabella—Minister for the Environment and Heritage, Minister for Planning and Land Management, Minister for Police and Emergency Services and Minister assisting the Chief Minister on Advanced Technology and Space Industries) (3.41): Pursuant to standing order 211, I move:

That the Assembly take note of the following paper:

Independent Review into the Workplace Culture within ACT Public Health Services—Interim Report.

Question resolved in the affirmative.

Planning and Development Act—variation No 359 to the Territory Plan

That the Assembly take note of the following paper:

Planning and Development Act, pursuant to subsection 79(1)—Approval of Variation No 359 to the Territory Plan—Changes to the Tharwa Precinct Map and Code and removal of public land overlay.

Variation 359 of the Territory Plan incorporates the outcomes and recommendations of the Tharwa village plan into the Territory Plan. The Tharwa village plan was developed in collaboration with the Tharwa community to provide a long-term vision and planning framework to guide its enhancement and viability into the future. It also defined what is important about Tharwa and how its rural character and qualities can

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