Senate debates
Tuesday, 14 August 2007
SOCIAL SECURITY AND OTHER LEGISLATION AMENDMENT (WELFARE PAYMENT REFORM) BILL 2007; NORTHERN TERRITORY NATIONAL EMERGENCY RESPONSE BILL 2007; FAMILIES, COMMUNITY SERVICES AND INDIGENOUS AFFAIRS AND OTHER LEGISLATION AMENDMENT (NORTHERN TERRITORY NATIONAL EMERGENCY RESPONSE AND OTHER MEASURES) BILL 2007; Appropriation (Northern Territory National Emergency Response) Bill (No. 1) 2007-2008; Appropriation (Northern Territory National Emergency Response) Bill (No. 2) 2007-2008
In Committee
9:08 pm
Nigel Scullion (NT, Country Liberal Party, Minister for Community Services) Share this | Hansard source
That is a technical question. I could probably say pretty much anything that you would build on a community is within the scope of public works. The general infrastructure that we are dealing with is housing and associated infrastructure. So the infrastructure that we would put in is the houses and the supporting infrastructure. It is the intention that that would be the basic and principal activity that we would wish to be exempted from the public works process.
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