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Northern Parklands Bill

Final Stages

Consideration in committee of the Legislative Council's amendments.

(Continued from 14 October 2025.)

The Hon. N.D. CHAMPION: I move:

That the Legislative Council's amendments be agreed to.

These five amendments relate to the central proposition around the setting of the levy. When we brought that to the house, the original bill had just the House of Assembly for the setting of the levy. Those opposite and I had a very amenable policy conversation about it, and I undertook to go away and think carefully about it. The government presented amendments to the other place to include the Legislative Council—both chambers of parliament.

All of these five amendments relate to that policy discussion, so I think this is an improvement to the bill. It obviously locks in parliamentary oversight to all of the features of the bill that there should be and should give some assurance to those opposite and to the community more broadly that the government's intentions are just to build a very comprehensive, big, beautiful northern parklands.

Mr TEAGUE: I appreciate the—

The ACTING CHAIR (Mr Odenwalder): You don't have to address the beauty of the amendments—or the bill, the beautiful bill or beautiful amendments, or is it all beautiful?

Mr TEAGUE: I was tempted to make a short contribution, but I am much more interested in hearing from the Chair, actually.

The ACTING CHAIR (Mr Odenwalder): I am off the leash, member for Heysen.

Mr TEAGUE: Please, stay that way; do continue, and I will sit down and we will have the benefit. This bill has now come full circle, and I appreciate the minister's summation of how those amendments that were dealt with in the other place came about. The result of the debate in this place also had the effect of having some amendments in terms of the original constituent councils being added. That was done here, so there has been some work to get this all ready to go. I do not have anything to add specifically in relation to the reason for those amendments; it is good that was done.

In terms of the minister's observations about this big, new project all being ready to go, I recognise the input of the Local Government Association in assisting in terms of the debate as it has progressed along the way. That has been of assistance to me—and I think I can also speak for the member for Flinders in this regard—and those of us on this side who participated perhaps most actively at the committee stage.

For the record, I note that the feedback from those constituent councils remains, so far as some feedback from elected members, that this is early stages, and some of what is about to happen might still be news to some of them to an extent. The real rubber is going to hit the road in terms of the additional impost in terms of rates and all the rest of it, charges that are going to flow on, and the elected members in those councils are the ones who are going to need to navigate that shortly. So I continue to urge the government to bring everyone along in that process. I otherwise note the contents of these amendments and the imminent passage of the bill.

Motion carried.

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