Nigel Scullion (NT, Country Liberal Party, Minister for Community Services) Share this | Hansard source

I understood, Senator Brown, that for the purpose of clarity the act will provide a schedule specifying, as we did with the prescription process, exactly where this particular act applies. It will be a place on the ground or a map with latitude and longitude that provides for the prescribed community. I am sure you will either continue to question me or someone will correct me but my assumption is that the common areas would obviously be the road areas and other public areas. It would differ from community to community, but most of the communities I go to have a large community space adjacent to the community centre. Normally, the community council or the community hall is in a hub where they have the childcare centre, the health centre and those sorts of things. One would assume that the common areas are all those areas that are not held privately within a prescribed area, so obviously private land would be a house, a front yard or whatever. Clearly, it would be the road areas and areas that are not held as private land.