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Legislative Assembly (29 October 2026, 10:00 am)

28 October 2026

Contents updated on 5 Nov 2026

The sitting opens with formalities and a community petition on sports ground parking, then moves to the Chief Minister’s statement on the Vietnam trade mission and detailed Opposition scrutiny of ministerial and member travel practices, costs and disclosure before the Assembly votes to note the statement.

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Opening of sitting, petition and ministerial travel scrutiny

00:18

Opening of sitting and sports ground petition

00:18

Opening of sitting, custodianship and petitions referred

00:18

Petitioner Milligan: sports ground parking and fines

01:45

Debate on sports ground parking petition — capacity vs green space

04:36

Chief Minister’s Vietnam mission and member travel scrutiny

09:18

Chief Minister: Vietnam trade mission — education and tourism

09:18

Chief Minister: Vietnam mission — investment, clean energy and 5‑year targets

13:55

Opposition response: transparency on Vietnam travel and member travel constraints

18:02

Opposition: Christchurch stadium study tour and economic impacts

20:36

Vote on travel statement and personal explanation on education remarks

24:22

Health, education infrastructure and justice outcomes

26:03

Health and education infrastructure program and birth centre model

26:03

Minister Stephen‑Smith: population growth and infrastructure strategy

26:03

North Canberra Hospital redevelopment — scope and facilities

27:11

Health infrastructure — Canberra Hospital parking and community centres

31:12

Education infrastructure — new and expanded public schools

33:51

Major school projects — Whitlam, Garran, Narrabundah, Telopea, Gungahlin college

36:53

School modernisation, minor works and statement tabled

40:47

Ms Clay — birth centre model and school project cost overruns

43:40

Ms Tough — safety concerns on standalone birth centres; motion agreed

50:44

Reducing Recidivism 25 by 25 — outcomes and party positions

53:32

Reducing Recidivism 25 by 25 — initiative overview and results

53:32

Research evidence — drivers of reoffending and need for early intervention

56:06

Future justice reform focus and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander recidivism

59:26

Attorney-General — Reducing Recidivism report tabled

01:01:24

Opposition response — failure to meet 25% target and rising crime

01:03:38

Opposition — data limitations, weak policy response and social drivers

01:07:23

Opposition — Aboriginal recidivism surge and call for sentencing review

01:10:09

Greens (Vassarotti) — justice reinvestment achievements and investments

01:12:50

Greens (Vassarotti) — Aboriginal over-representation and call to reprioritise

01:15:56

Greens (Emerson) — First Nations recidivism, Closing the Gap and deaths in custody inquiry

01:21:21

Minister Stephen-Smith — rebuttal of Greens criticism and shared responsibility

01:26:09

Government (Paterson) — youth justice strategy and raising the age reforms

01:30:45

Youth justice — Safer Youth Response and ROMART

01:32:33

ROMART membership — inter‑agency collaboration and results

01:34:21

Community partners and conclusion on reducing recidivism

01:35:15

Emergency services workforce, fiscal transparency and housing legislation

01:36:27

ACT Ambulance Service workforce pressures and Opposition critique

01:36:27

ACT Ambulance Service — roster review and rising demand

01:36:27

ACTAS reporting — workload, response times and overtime

01:38:34

ACTAS workforce growth — recruitment of paramedics

01:41:04

Flexible work, leave constraints and wellbeing initiatives

01:43:32

Paramedic safety — occupational violence and training investments

01:47:00

Molonglo emergency services station — commissioning and integration

01:48:49

Opposition response — ACTAS staffing, closures and transparency

01:51:34

Budget initiatives data — enhanced fiscal transparency motion

01:58:03

Budget initiatives data — motion for greater transparency

01:58:03

Government stance on budget initiatives motion

02:02:22

Treasurer — budget management system documents

02:02:46

Greens — support for budget transparency motion

02:04:12

Canberra Liberals — call for finer-grain expenditure data

02:08:46

Mr Cocks — closing on fiscal reporting motion and adoption

02:09:47

Standing orders review and reordering of executive business

02:10:50

Standing Committee on Administration and Procedure — review of standing orders

02:10:50

Procedural motion — reorder of executive business to Housing bill

02:12:20

Housing and Consumer Affairs omnibus bill — strata, retirement villages and gas transition

02:13:22

Canberra Liberals — support for Housing and Consumer Affairs bill, opposition to gas phase-out

02:13:22

Greens — retirement villages dispute resolution reforms

02:15:17

Greens — unit titles quorums and gas transition measures

02:18:48

Mr Emerson — support for bill with concerns on reduced quorum safeguards (part 1)

02:21:51

Mr Emerson — risks from weaker strata owner protections (part 2)

02:25:21

Attorney-General — response on quorums, gas, retirement villages and passage of bill

02:27:53

Legislative Assembly (29 October 2026, 10:00 am)

28 October 2026

Legislative Assembly Thu, 29 Oct 2026 ACT Legislative Assembly

Follow its sittings

00:18 - 01:04

Speaker 2

Dhowan ngunnawal, dhuwudhurrung, yin gun nallawalle, manan guran wari, dhuwudhurrung, nganda dindingandi wanungrali djinung. Members, the words I have just spoken are in the language of the traditional custodians, and they translate to, this is Ngunnawal country, today we are all meeting on Ngunnawal country, we always pay our respects to elders female and male. Members, I'd ask that you stand in silence and pray or reflect on our responsibilities to the people of the Australian Capital Territory. Members. I call the Clerk.

01:04 - 01:36

Speaker 3

The following petition and e-petition have been lodged. By Mr Milligan from 77 and 485 residents requesting that the Assembly call on the ACT government to work with all stakeholders to upgrade and expand car parking and facilities at all sports grounds across Canberra. In accordance with standing order 99A, these petitions will be referred to the Standing Committee on Transport and City Services. The terms of these petitions will be recorded in Hansard and a copy referred to the appropriate minister for response pursuant to standing order 100.

01:36 - 01:45

Speaker 2

Thank you, and pursuant to standing order 98A, I propose the question that the petitions so lodged be noted. Question is that the motion be agreed to, Mr Milligan.

01:45 - 02:20

Speaker 1

Yes, thank you Mr Speaker, and today I am tabling the petition calling for better facilities at sports grounds across Canberra, particularly when it comes to car parking. As has been mentioned a hundred times in this place over the year, Canberra has the highest sporting participation rate in the country. Our sporting clubs are growing, more kids are getting involved, and more families are turning up to support their local teams. But the infrastructure simply hasn't kept up. It's not just the people playing sport who are affected.

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