West End Brewery

Mr COWDREY (Colton) (14:54): My question is to the Minister for Planning. Will the government require federal funding to develop the West End Brewery site and, if so, how much?

The Hon. N.D. CHAMPION (Taylor—Minister for Trade and Investment, Minister for Housing and Urban Development, Minister for Planning) (14:54): Well, the purchase of the West End Brewery site and the project that we are undertaking for renewal will be going to master planning next year, and the following year we will be beginning civil construction, and after that we will be trying to get people into houses, which is what this government's priority is.

We have not, at this point, had discussions with the commonwealth government about that site in particular. We have had discussions with them around a range of other sites and of course, if there are federal funding streams, either through NHFIC or through the happily legislated Housing Australia Future Fund, they would be most welcome. But the development of that particular site is not reliant on federal funding at the moment.