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peoples to ensure that the transition is smooth and has as little impact as possible on the community.
In summary, this bill will improve fisheries management in the ACT, offer better protection to native fish and habitat and will, importantly, facilitate access to cultural resources for traditional custodians. I commend the bill to the Assembly.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Bill agreed to in principle.
Leave granted to dispense with the detail stage.
Bill agreed to.
Planning and Development (Community Concessional Leases) Amendment Bill 2019
Debate resumed from 1 August 2018, on motion by Mr Gentleman:
That this bill be agreed to in principle.
MR PARTON (Brindabella) (11.29): The Canberra Liberals will be opposing this bill for a number of reasons. The reporting requirements on community groups, even those who won the deconcessionalisation of their leases prior to this amendment, are complete Big Brother overreach, to be honest, Mr Assistant Speaker. When you consider the make-up of so many of the community groups that are in this space and how many of them operate entirely with volunteers, satisfying those requirements will be tough. So there is the overreach of the reporting requirements, but the framework itself, whereby the planning directorate would have a more holistic approach to the granting of land for community leases, looks quite sensible if you trust this government to do the right thing with that framework. But you cannot trust the Barr government. You cannot trust them to play fair.
You cannot trust the Barr government. It is inevitable that they will insert their social agenda in these matters. It is inevitable that they will pick winners and play favourites, because that is what they do. This government cannot ever trust the community to do the right thing. They think that Labor and the Greens know best, and they will manufacture the result that they want. They continually display that they do not trust our citizens, and time and time again they display that they do not trust community groups.
We have seen this play out in the ongoing debate on clubs’ community contributions. The government made it clear that they do not trust the clubs to determine what is important for their community. They quarantined a portion of clubs’ community contributions and funnelled them to the newly minted Chief Minister’s charitable fund because they were worried that the clubs would just look after their mates.
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