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06 May 2010
A vendor should not be subject to prosecution just because the purchaser has misled the vendor or failed to comply with foreign investment rules.File Size:
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06 May 2010
Australia would be making a serious mistake if any government attempted to cap the annual rate of population growth to half its historical level and keep numbers under 30 million at 2050.File Size:
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06 April 2010
Off-site linkage infrastructure ("backhaul") should be funded by all network users; not property developers. Optic fibre technology is desirable, but not essential. Legislation must make allowance for alternative technology and innovation. Legislation should remain focused on making development projects fibre ready/capable. The requirement to install FTTP should be linked to the presence of linkage optic fibre infrastructure; not to the size of an urban development. The 1 July 2010 commencement is not realistic.File Size:
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19 February 2010
There has been an increasing tendency for some states, to use land use laws as a mechanism for seizing private property rights for public purposes, without compensation.File Size:
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29 January 2010
We're concerned with the way that ANEF contours are prepared by airport operators and particularly how the current system is open to manipulation by airport operators to unnecessarily seek the serialisation of land in the vicinity of airports. The role of Airservices Australia in the approval of ANEF is vital, but recent experience brings their effectiveness into question.File Size:
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17 January 2010
Fundamentally, the Urban Taskforce has a simple position on the matter of donations to political parties. We have had the same position for more than five years: we advocate a complete national blanket ban on political party donations from anyone — corporations or individuals, developers, lawyers, doctors, trade unions, miners, tobacco companies or environmentalists.
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17 January 2010
The review concedes that the federal environment law is repetitive, lengthy, unnecessarily complex, and overly prescriptive. However, there are almost no solid reform proposals to reduce the red tape burden. Instead, there are proposals to extend the heavy hand of regulation to many more urban development projects across the country.File Size:
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08 January 2010
The central proposals of this paper are unjustified and alarming. These proposals would mean federal involvement in a large number of greenfield development applications. Given that most land-use regulation is primarily managed at a state and territory level, federalisation of Indigenous heritage regulation would create an unbalanced and incoherent regulatory environment. The proposals do not adequately respect the property rights of non-government land owners.File Size:
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04 January 2010
Linkage infrastructure should be funded by all network users. The legislation should also permit the continued installation of copper line where optic fibre networks do not exist.File Size:
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