Lee Rhiannon (NSW, Australian Greens) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I seek leave to amend general business notice of motion No. 477 standing in my name for today relating to public housing.

Leave granted.

I move:

That the Senate—

(a) notes that:

(i) the New South Wales Coalition Government policy of increasing public housing sell offs is causing stress and uncertainty for public housing tenants across New South Wales,

(ii) the Glebe Community Development Project (the project) supports a range of organisations that foster community cohesion and improve life opportunities of residents and the New South Wales Government is currently defunding the project, and

(iii) the 1970s Green Bans organised by local residents and the Builders Labourers Federation and supported by New South Wales Labor’s introduction of the Heritage Act 1977, Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 and Land and Environment Court Act 1979, as well as the intervention of the Federal Labor Minister for Urban and Regional Development, Mr Tom Uren, saved considerable housing stock in Glebe from demolition when they stopped the construction of an inner city motorway; and

(b) calls on the New South Wales Government to reverse its policy of selling off public housing and continue funding the project.

Question agreed to.