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The government did not agree with recommendation 5, which requested the expansion of the area for taller building elements up four storeys, primarily because the level of redevelopment exceeds the outcomes sought by the master plan for growth in the group centre. It would also place residential uses in proximity to the commercial CZ2 services uses and the loading docks. I am satisfied that the issues raised by the community have been adequately addressed and I subsequently approved the variation.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Education, Employment and Youth Affairs—Standing Committee
Membership
MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Pursuant to standing order 223, the opposition whip wrote to the Speaker on 2 December 2019 advising of proposed changes to the membership of the Standing Committee on Education, Employment and Youth Affairs. On 2 December 2019 the Speaker agreed that Mr Parton be discharged from the Standing Committee on Education, Employment and Youth Affairs and Ms Lee be appointed in his place.
Motion (by Mr Gentleman) agreed to:
That the change to the membership of the Standing Committee on Education, Employment and Youth Affairs, as proposed to and agreed by the Speaker, pursuant to standing order 223, be adopted.
Peaceful protest
Discussion of matter of public importance
MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Madam Speaker has received letters from Ms Cheyne, Ms Cody, Mr Coe, Mrs Dunne, Mr Gupta, Mr Hanson, Mrs Kikkert, Ms Lawder, Ms Le Couteur, Ms Lee, Mr Milligan, Mr Parton, Mr Pettersson and Mr Wall proposing that matters of public importance be submitted to the Assembly. In accordance with standing order 79, Madam Speaker has determined that the matter proposed by Ms Le Couteur be submitted to the Assembly, namely:
The importance of peaceful protest.
MS LE COUTEUR (Murrumbidgee) (4.31): Just over 187 years ago, in 1832, the first women’s suffrage petition was presented to the British House of Commons. Immediately recognising the validity of the arguments and the justice of the cause, the House voted at once to grant women voting rights fully equal to those of—no. Look, who are we kidding? The petition went nowhere. Thirty-five years later, the Manchester National Society for Women’s Suffrage was formed. Thirty years after that, 17 women’s suffrage societies united to form the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies. They favoured peaceful methods of campaigning, such as the petition that had been introduced a full 65 years earlier.
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