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Standing Committee on Environment and Planning: Select Committee on Environment and Planning - Inquiry into Annual Reports 2025 2026 (11 November 2026)

10 November 2026

Contents updated on 10 Nov 2026

The committee conducts the Suburban Land Agency estimates hearing, examining the Ginninderra East acquisition, local infrastructure and employment in new suburbs, graffiti responsibilities, and the Ginninderry road project, before turning to SLA staffing, consultant use, land release pipeline, coordination with Housing ACT and progress toward the 30,000 homes by 2030 target.

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SLA estimates — land acquisition, urban projects and housing supply

00:04

Opening of SLA estimates hearing and Ginninderra East acquisition

00:04

Chair — hearing opened and procedures

00:04

Chair — Ginninderra East contamination and studies

01:51

Chair — Ginninderra East conservation and housing mix

03:57

Chair — public housing decisions and Labor land waiver

05:08

Urban development projects — Molonglo, Ginninderra East delivery, Civic graffiti and Ginninderry impacts

08:36

Deputy Chair — Molonglo employment and commercial demand

08:36

Deputy Chair — Molonglo community facilities and staging

13:08

Mr Cain — Ginninderra East developers and SLA reporting

15:40

Mr Cain — graffiti responsibilities in Civic and suburbs

16:36

Ms Berry — Ginninderry, Drake-Brockman Drive and Pegasus impacts

20:37

SLA workforce, consultants, land pipeline and housing targets

24:09

Mr Emerson — SLA staffing growth versus land sales

24:09

Project complexity, staffing and use of consultants

28:35

Single-residential blocks, inventory and future land pipeline

30:41

Land undersupply, prices, SLA responsibility and Jacka koala studies

34:40

Indicative Land Release Program shortfall and impact on housing targets

36:28

Coordination with Housing ACT on 13,200 public housing target

41:35

Ministerial attendance and close of SLA session

43:39

Minister Orr — landcare procurement, biosecurity readiness and infrastructure impacts

49:52

Minister Orr — Landcare stewardship procurement and catchment groups

49:52

Opening with Minister Orr and confirmation of stewardship contracts

49:52

Minister’s meetings during procurement and engagement with catchment groups

51:27

Volunteer numbers, reporting obligations and comparison with previous arrangements

53:14

Access to Landcare contracts and transition of catchment group roles

56:16

Catchment groups funding, tender outcome and evaluation

57:18

ACT avian influenza preparedness and public biosecurity advice

01:01:34

Minister Orr and officials — ACT bird flu preparedness

01:01:34

Bird flu surveillance data, testing triage and national liaison

01:05:18

Backyard poultry owners — biosecurity advice on bird flu

01:08:52

Decarbonisation and major infrastructure — EV charging, data centres and climate-health data

01:10:03

Public EV charging rollout, private operators and accessibility

01:10:03

Data centres framework — planning, energy and water constraints

01:15:04

Climate change health impacts data and State of Environment recommendation

01:19:51

Social housing electrification, federal SHEP funding and virtual power plant

01:22:34

Balcony plug-in solar — national work and ACT role

01:25:37

Environmental governance, emissions trajectory and resource transition

01:27:57

Environmental governance — wildlife sanctuaries, packaging stewardship, canopy target and internal misconduct

01:27:57

Minister: fox-proof fences at Mulligans Flat

01:27:57

Packaging waste stewardship — loss of federal bill and ACT stance

01:28:40

Tree canopy 30% target and emissions — portfolio accountability

01:34:08

Fraud and misconduct in directorate — data access, resignations and referrals

01:38:29

Water efficiency, gas transition and progress toward climate targets

01:43:48

Water efficiency and summer readiness — programs for households and assets

01:43:48

Gas network decommissioning — AER decision and cost allocation

01:49:31

Electricity network decommissioning and consumer costs

01:54:08

MLA Lee — Nature Conservation Strategy timing and emissions tracking

01:55:14

Remembrance Day observance during hearing

01:57:47

Minister — reasons for missing 2025 climate target

01:59:33

Urban resilience, electrification, land management and hearing closure

02:01:50

Urban food production, heat adaptation and Yarralumla Creek corridor

02:01:50

MLA Emerson — urban food production sites and Canberra City Farm

02:01:50

Chair Clay — heat refuges, pools and adaptation responsibilities

02:06:23

Landscape architect plan — timelines and consultation scope

02:09:22

MLA Carrick — Yarralumla Creek flood management and DRF project

02:12:41

MLA Carrick — biodiversity corridor concerns in Yarralumla Creek

02:17:23

Apartments electrification, EV charging network and Climate Ready Government

02:19:17

MLA Lee — electrification of apartments and strata frameworks

02:19:17

EV charging in apartments — insurance concerns and targets

02:22:52

EV charging network — coordination with New South Wales

02:24:48

Mr Braddock — Climate Ready Government funding query

02:26:08

Officials — objectives, pilots and agency capability

02:28:08

Ministers Orr and Cheyne — dingoes, weeds, pest control and hearing closure

02:38:24

Committee resumes — introduction of ministers and hearing parameters

02:38:24

Dingo pest status reform — consultative process, control and research

02:39:27

Weed management priorities — African lovegrass and buffer zoning

02:46:50

Spatial weed-risk mapping — project initiation

02:51:23

Cain — question: pest and weed overspend

02:52:59

Cain — question: effectiveness targets and monitoring

02:57:56

Berry — dingoes licensing and backyard weeds

02:59:54

Berry — humane aspects of dingo control

03:03:35

Emerson — key threatening processes and weeds

03:05:28

African lovegrass in suburbs — mowing protocols

03:12:12

African lovegrass mapping, spread and data use

03:16:21

Riparian weed removal and hearing closure

03:18:10

Standing Committee on Environment and Planning: Select Committee on Environment and Planning - Inquiry into Annual Reports 2025 2026 (11 November 2026)

10 November 2026

Standing Committee on Environment and Planning Tue, 10 Nov 2026 ACT Legislative Assembly

00:04 - 00:49

Speaker 4

Yeah, we might get going. Good morning. Welcome to the public hearings of the Standing Committee on Environment and Planning for our inquiry into the annual financial reports 2025-2026. The committee will today hear from the Suburban Land Agency, the City Renewal Authority, the Minister for Climate Change, Environment, Energy and Water and the Minister for Government and City Services. The committee wishes to acknowledge the traditional custodians of the lands we're meeting on, the Ngunnawal people.

We wish to acknowledge and respect their continuing culture and the contribution they make to the life of this city and this region. We'd like to acknowledge and welcome any other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who may be attending today's event or who may be watching from elsewhere. A little housekeeping: mobile phones, laptops off or on silent. Witnesses, please speak one at a time. That applies on both sides of the table.

00:49 - 01:10

Speaker 3

Thanks. That helps us with our Hansard transcription. We are recording and transcribing in Hansard, we will be publishing, we're also broadcasting and web streaming live. If you take a question on notice, please say, "I will take that on notice." That helps our secretariat to track down the answers.

01:10 - 01:31

Speaker 4

And welcome witnesses from the Suburban Land Agency and the City Renewal Authority. We've got a lot of witnesses. The first time you speak, please say your full name, your role and the organisation you're appearing for. You don't need to acknowledge the privilege statement anymore, but as witnesses you are protected by parliamentary privilege and you are bound by its obligations. You must tell the truth.

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