Scott Ludlam (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

asked the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, upon notice, on 16 October 2012:

With reference to the potential sale, from the department to Defence Housing Australia, of the Gunners’ Cottages on Queen Victoria Street, Fremantle:

(1) Were the properties independently valued?

(2) What sale price was arrived at after the department’s valuation and the independent valuation was complete?

(3) Has the sale been progressed or agreed to?

(4) What major maintenance and refurbishments to the properties are needed?

(5) What is the estimated cost of maintenance and refurbishments?

(6) Have maintenance and refurbishment costs been put to the Public Works Committee and what is the anticipated schedule for their refurbishment; if not, when will the maintenance and refurbishments be put to the Public Works Committee?

(7) When is it expected that the houses may be inhabited?