Development (Interim Development Control) Amendment Bill
20/03/2013
The Hon. K.L. VINCENT (21:55): I will not hold up the progress of this bill or the procedures of the chamber for long, but I would like to put on record Dignity for Disability’s support for the Hon. Mr Parnell’s bill. Development and urban planning matters are not the areas that constituents and the community are in regular habit of contacting my office about. In fact, I am sure many of them would love to have the luxury of the time and energy not to be so wrapped up in matters of, I suppose, pure survival and to be able to discuss these things more. In any event, they are not things that are discussed too often with my office.
However, I have to say we have received a vast array of correspondence on this particular bill before us and, to the best of my recollection, not one person who has contacted my office on this bill has been opposed to it. So, clearly, there is a lot of community support for it and, therefore, I am very happy to put our support behind it also. I would like to thank all the individuals, community organisations and residents’ groups that have taken the time to contact me with submissions seeking my support for the bill. Some of the residents’ associations and surrounding areas include, but, of course, are not restricted to those from Kensington, Norwood, Mount Barker, Callington, Dulwich, Rose Park, Western Adelaide Coastal Residents Association, Goolwa and Prospect. Community Alliance SA is also a ferocious supporter of these reforms, as an umbrella organisation that represents a broad range of community and resident groups.
So, clearly, again, I reiterate that the community is very unhappy about what has been occurring in relation to development and, therefore, so should this parliament be very unhappy. Since recent and past experience shows very clearly that we cannot rely on this Weatherill government to live up to its own promise of consult and decide, we do, therefore, rely on non-government members to raise issues such as this and, so, I commend the Hon. Mr Mark Parnell on doing just that. I see this bill as an opportunity to start correcting at least one area of the government’s wrongs in this portfolio and, therefore, I commend the bill to the chamber.
