kunanyi – Government Review
Deputy Speaker, I rise tonight to talk again about kunanyi, that omnipresent mountain that sits behind our beautiful city here, nipaluna.
Deputy Speaker, I rise tonight to talk again about kunanyi, that omnipresent mountain that sits behind our beautiful city here, nipaluna.
I've got some questions about the $600,000 your department allocated to a strategic review of kunanyi/Mt Wellington in the Budget. I'd like a breakdown of how the $600,000 is planned to be spent and whether you are aware that the Wellington Park Management Trust had made a submission for $300,000 to the Treasury Structured Infrastructure Investment Review process for a business case? Were you aware of that when you announced your own strategic review?
hy are you letting the minister for Business, Industry and Resources run the internal departmental review of future uses of kunanyi?
In 2021, the Mount Wellington Cable Car Company proposal was comprehensively rejected by the Hobart City Council through a rigorous established planning process, hearing thousands of concerns raised by Tasmanian Aboriginal people, the community, and experts.
Your government has a policy to support a cable car up kunanyi/Mount Wellington and the construction of a large, privately owned commercial centre on the summit. Your predecessor set up a specific section in the Department of State Growth to help its progress and pass facilitation legislation to help the proponents apply for assessment.
kunanyi is an incredible Aboriginal cultural landscape. It has stories and song lines that have been in existence since time began.
Talking to key kunanyi stakeholders in recent weeks, they had no idea this announcement was coming.
Why, like the stadium, are you so dismissive of proper planning processes?
The Greens are delighted by news TasCAT’s decision to reject the proposed cable car for kunanyi will not be appealed to the Supreme Court.
I move - That the Cable Car (kunanyi/Mount Wellington) Facilitation Repeal Bill 2021 be read the second time.