❓ Minister outlines planning reforms aimed at cutting red tape and stimulating economic and housing growth, while also criticising the WA Liberals' stance on planning and broader policy issues.
AnsweredQoN 428Legislative Assembly
QuestionView source ↗
Planning reform
428. Mr Stuart Aubrey to
the Minister for Planning and Lands:
I refer to the Cook
Labor government's ongoing efforts to reform our planning system.
(1) Can the minister outline to the house how
these reforms are cutting red tape to deliver economic and housing growth?
(2) Is the minister aware of any extreme views on planning
and broader policy areas?
428. Mr Stuart Aubrey to
the Minister for Planning and Lands:
I refer to the Cook
Labor government's ongoing efforts to reform our planning system.
(1) Can the minister outline to the house how
these reforms are cutting red tape to deliver economic and housing growth?
(2) Is the minister aware of any extreme views on planning
and broader policy areas?
AnswerView source ↗
(1)–(2) Thank you, member; and, yes, I do
know of extreme views on planning and other areas. As we know, we have already
undertaken significant planning reforms, in addition to the Premier's most
recent announcement relating to a state development bill. Also flowing out of
the federal Economic Reform Roundtable, states have been set further challenges
to drive and cut red tape. Of course, our planning reforms have created a new
permanent significant development pathway for major projects, consolidated the development
assessment panel system, removed mandatory thresholds and enabled community
housing providers to opt in, provided clearer processes in local government and
made it easier for Western Australians to get approval to build or renovate a
single home. These reforms are getting results. I am advised that through both the
significant development pathway and the DAP system, we have seen applications worth
over $11 billion go through the system. This is supporting residential
development, commercial development and other critical industrial development,
supporting jobs and the economy.
Every state and every government,
whether Liberal or Labor, is driving reform to streamline, but we do have one
extreme element, and that is the WA Liberals. They are now on the outside of
what everyone else is doing. They are moving in the opposite direction. The
member for Nedlands talks about DAP stooges and deep state in the planning
system. I do not know what that is, but the conspiracy theories are there. The
member for Kalamunda does not know whether he is Green or Liberal. He wrote to
me asking about third party appeals in the planning system that would
absolutely mean that many housing developments would be left forever in the
court system. Of course, we have Hon Neil Thomson. Whoever he speaks to, he
says something different. We know that the Leader of the Liberal Party is letting
him get away with pushing more red tape. Of course, we are not surprised by the
direction of the Leader of the Liberals, because we have seen it on other
extreme views, like those of "the Clan" and Hon Nick Goiran. As the Premier
and Deputy Premier have said, it is an extraordinary position that the federal Leader
of the Liberal Party has sacked Senator Price and said that this was unacceptable,
yet the state Leader of the Liberals, according to The West Australian , has given his blessing to
tonight's fundraiser.
This shows who is in control. "The
Clan" is in control. The leader of the Liberals does not have control over
his party. Nick Goiran is saying, "Stuff you, I'm going to do this Liberal
fundraiser with a senator who has been sacked at a federal level." I have
to say this: the leader of the Liberals can go all about and say he supports members
of the Indian community, but, in fact, tonight he is profiting off their misery
into the WA Liberal coffers. Each one of you Liberal members should be ashamed.
You should be ashamed that you support this division—and not just
support division, but you actively profit from it!
Point of order
Mr Shane Love: I understood that questions asked and
their answers must be relevant. I question the relevance of this answer to
anything that was asked.
The Speaker: I shall not uphold that point of order.
know of extreme views on planning and other areas. As we know, we have already
undertaken significant planning reforms, in addition to the Premier's most
recent announcement relating to a state development bill. Also flowing out of
the federal Economic Reform Roundtable, states have been set further challenges
to drive and cut red tape. Of course, our planning reforms have created a new
permanent significant development pathway for major projects, consolidated the development
assessment panel system, removed mandatory thresholds and enabled community
housing providers to opt in, provided clearer processes in local government and
made it easier for Western Australians to get approval to build or renovate a
single home. These reforms are getting results. I am advised that through both the
significant development pathway and the DAP system, we have seen applications worth
over $11 billion go through the system. This is supporting residential
development, commercial development and other critical industrial development,
supporting jobs and the economy.
Every state and every government,
whether Liberal or Labor, is driving reform to streamline, but we do have one
extreme element, and that is the WA Liberals. They are now on the outside of
what everyone else is doing. They are moving in the opposite direction. The
member for Nedlands talks about DAP stooges and deep state in the planning
system. I do not know what that is, but the conspiracy theories are there. The
member for Kalamunda does not know whether he is Green or Liberal. He wrote to
me asking about third party appeals in the planning system that would
absolutely mean that many housing developments would be left forever in the
court system. Of course, we have Hon Neil Thomson. Whoever he speaks to, he
says something different. We know that the Leader of the Liberal Party is letting
him get away with pushing more red tape. Of course, we are not surprised by the
direction of the Leader of the Liberals, because we have seen it on other
extreme views, like those of "the Clan" and Hon Nick Goiran. As the Premier
and Deputy Premier have said, it is an extraordinary position that the federal Leader
of the Liberal Party has sacked Senator Price and said that this was unacceptable,
yet the state Leader of the Liberals, according to The West Australian , has given his blessing to
tonight's fundraiser.
This shows who is in control. "The
Clan" is in control. The leader of the Liberals does not have control over
his party. Nick Goiran is saying, "Stuff you, I'm going to do this Liberal
fundraiser with a senator who has been sacked at a federal level." I have
to say this: the leader of the Liberals can go all about and say he supports members
of the Indian community, but, in fact, tonight he is profiting off their misery
into the WA Liberal coffers. Each one of you Liberal members should be ashamed.
You should be ashamed that you support this division—and not just
support division, but you actively profit from it!
Point of order
Mr Shane Love: I understood that questions asked and
their answers must be relevant. I question the relevance of this answer to
anything that was asked.
The Speaker: I shall not uphold that point of order.
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