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MR PARTON (Brindabella) (5.16): As per our opposition to clause 13, we will not be supporting this clause. I think these impacts are already considered through the environmental impact assessment processes.
Ms Le Couteur often refers to an emergency in this place, and I know that, for a thousand families, and for a thousand workers who have lost their jobs through the slowdown in construction in the last six months, they are facing a genuine emergency in the context of their families right now, in regard to mortgage payments and keeping a roof over their heads. Their emergency is very real, and my fear is that there will be many more facing that particular predicament if we do anything that will slow down the construction pipeline.
Clause 14 negatived.
Proposed new clause 14A.
MS LE COUTEUR (Murrumbidgee) (5.18): I seek leave to move amendments to this bill that have not been considered by the scrutiny committee.
Leave granted.
MS LE COUTEUR: I move amendment No 1 circulated in my name, which inserts a new clause 14A [see schedule 4 at page 2163]. This new clause is consequential to clause 15, both the original clause 15 in the bill and clause 15 in the Greens amendments. Members should vote for this clause if they intend to support clause 15. I recommend that members support both of these.
MR PARTON (Brindabella) (5.18): The amendments to this clause do my head in. What Ms Le Couteur is saying here is that her original amendment to this bill is not actually workable, so she is stringing together something that does not achieve anything, but which sends a signal that “we care”. We are not intending to oppose clause 15, despite the fact that we see it as quite meaningless. I am sure we can support this amendment but I am not sure that it is actually achieving anything.
Amendment agreed to.
Proposed new clause 14A agreed to.
Proposed new clauses 14A and 14B.
MR GENTLEMAN (Brindabella—Manager of Government Business, Minister for Advanced Technology and Space Industries, Minister for the Environment and Heritage, Minister for Planning and Land Management, Minister for Police and Emergency Services and Minister for Urban Renewal) (5.20): I move amendment No 4 circulated in my name, which inserts new clauses 14A and 14B [see schedule 3 at page 2163].
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