Mr WOOD - 2006-03-30
The majority of Territorians support container deposit legislation. I am pleased to see the government is considering introducing CDL in remote communities. Why not introduce CDL for the whole of the Northern Territory, as happens in South Australia and is now being considered in Western Australia?
ANSWER
Madam Speaker, I thank the member for Nelson for his question. If anything, the member for Nelson has been very consistent with this. We have always said that any introduction, or even looking at CDL in the Territory would come from the national arena, because there are taxing issues. We have gone through this.
I notice the member for Braitling is shaking her head. She has also been quite vocal about this. We are working with our federal counterparts to look at the taxing issues on a federal level ...
Mrs Braham: In how many years’ time?
Ms SCRYMGOUR: … with some of the concerns coming from remote communities … You asked me a question, give me the courtesy of answering it.
With a lot of the requests coming from communities, the funding from the Litter Abatement and Resource Recovery Strategy goes into this program for the benefit of those communities, despite members on the opposite side saying that the money we receive from BIEC comes back to the government. I welcome the applications and submissions that we have received from a number of communities to look at running voluntary CDL programs so we can look at and review the effectiveness of those programs in those communities.
There are freight and other issues that we have to consider and councils have to look at. Through these trial programs, we will be able to work with those councils and look at the effectiveness of those communities on a wider scale.
ANSWER
Madam Speaker, I thank the member for Nelson for his question. If anything, the member for Nelson has been very consistent with this. We have always said that any introduction, or even looking at CDL in the Territory would come from the national arena, because there are taxing issues. We have gone through this.
I notice the member for Braitling is shaking her head. She has also been quite vocal about this. We are working with our federal counterparts to look at the taxing issues on a federal level ...
Mrs Braham: In how many years’ time?
Ms SCRYMGOUR: … with some of the concerns coming from remote communities … You asked me a question, give me the courtesy of answering it.
With a lot of the requests coming from communities, the funding from the Litter Abatement and Resource Recovery Strategy goes into this program for the benefit of those communities, despite members on the opposite side saying that the money we receive from BIEC comes back to the government. I welcome the applications and submissions that we have received from a number of communities to look at running voluntary CDL programs so we can look at and review the effectiveness of those programs in those communities.
There are freight and other issues that we have to consider and councils have to look at. Through these trial programs, we will be able to work with those councils and look at the effectiveness of those communities on a wider scale.
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