House debates

Thursday, 15 June 2017

Bills

Appropriation Bill (No. 1) 2017-2018; Consideration in Detail

11:11 am

Photo of Michael SukkarMichael Sukkar (Deakin, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister to the Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you. One hundred and twenty-seven hectares within 10 kilometres of the Melbourne CBD—this is land that has been essentially vacant for 15 years. Six years of a Labor government did nothing. We think that prime land—

An opposition member interjecting

Yes—I will take the member's interjection—it is contaminated, and, had the decontamination work commenced during the Labor government's period, perhaps we would have houses on there now, but divestment is a key part of the plan. (Time expired)

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