Page 1399 - Week 05 - Thursday, 18 June 2020
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It is important for people to be able to have their homes built to an acceptable standard. The review of the Building Act and the building regulatory system is something that we are working on to make sure that Canberra has the highest quality of building and the highest confidence in building.
One of the matters raised today has been the matter of the commencement date. The commencement date in the provisions in the scheme does allow proper and appropriate consultation. It is always very interesting to hear the opposition speaking about the importance of consultation and the importance of taking time and listening to people, but if you take time and listen to people, they say you are too slow and you need to move more quickly.
Mr Parton is known for having dogs as pets. These circumstances demonstrate that he is probably more of a cat person—specifically, Schrodinger’s cat: he likes to have them both alive and dead simultaneously in his policy and development. What we need to do is make sure that we are working very carefully and very appropriately, making sure that the policy that we implement here is well thought through. We do listen and we will continue to consult.
I believe that the matters in the bill stand for themselves. I want to place on record my deep appreciation to the team of people across the government who have been working on this bill so determinedly, listening to people very carefully, working with industry, working with owners, working with people right across the board to make sure that we have the best possible buildings here in the ACT. 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.
Adjournment
Motion (by Ms Stephen-Smith) proposed:
That the Assembly do now adjourn.
Children and young people—parental contact
MRS KIKKERT (Ginninderra) (6.28): Last sitting I spoke about the ill-treatment inside CYPS of some members of our community. I spoke about how a mother’s 30-minute phone call to her daughter lasted only four minutes, when it was rudely cut off. It has been brought to my attention that the supervised contact visits between child and birth mother were terminated when the parent refused to follow instructions.
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