I'm the only one who bosses planning in this town - Stanhope

Ahhh yes, everything changes, and everything stays the same. Anyone surprised?

Fkn hell, it’s going to be a long 4 years with Mr Arrogance at the helm….

housebound said :

Stanhope can’t use call-in powers in a DA, only the planning minister can do that. If the final approval of the DA is subject to an EIS, then the minister has the discretion to table the final EIS in the Assembly, or could just approve it outright withouit tabling. The short story is: you get Labor, you get a data centre wherever Labor wants it. The Greens were kidding themselves if they thought Labor would change that one.

The only way to change it would be to change the new Planning and Development Act to force all EIS’s to be tabled in the Assembly for approval. Since the DA for the data centre was lodged under the old Planning Act, it is quite possible that even doing that wouldn’t help.

I’m not sure a DA approval is a disallowable instrument – so a disallowance motion might have no effect.

Anyway, classic Stanhope continues: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/11/03/2408461.htm

wait, he will be planning minister now. and AG and any other ministery that takes his fancy.

and when will he learn to separate professional from personal?

when we finally see the back of him.

Stanhope can’t use call-in powers in a DA, only the planning minister can do that. If the final approval of the DA is subject to an EIS, then the minister has the discretion to table the final EIS in the Assembly, or could just approve it outright withouit tabling. The short story is: you get Labor, you get a data centre wherever Labor wants it. The Greens were kidding themselves if they thought Labor would change that one.

The only way to change it would be to change the new Planning and Development Act to force all EIS’s to be tabled in the Assembly for approval. Since the DA for the data centre was lodged under the old Planning Act, it is quite possible that even doing that wouldn’t help.

I’m not sure a DA approval is a disallowable instrument – so a disallowance motion might have no effect.

Anyway, classic Stanhope continues: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/11/03/2408461.htm

Assembly – no….Ministers – yes?

Is this what he is getting at – it’s not decision by consenus of the assembly – but by the Minister only?

Didn’t Stanhopeless learn anything from the election. The people of Canberra gave him a kicking and took away his majority government. Mr Stanhopeless use this term to listen to the people before acting unilaterally.

classic Stanhope. if he said this before the election, I bet the swing aganist Labor would have been greater.

This clear the deck for the his union mates grabbing the car-park in Woden then.

Why doesn’t he slit his own throat and save us all the trouble of his arrogance and hypocrisy.

Christ, four more years of this crap from Mr Bighead………………

Why doesn’t he build his data centre in Cyprus?

As I noted in another thread a Disallowance motion from the Assembly will squash the data centre project. There’s no need for a no confidence motion – as JB notes a minister who took on the issue should do the decent thing and resign once the Disallowance passed.

There’s quite a history of Disallowance motions on significant projects, so Stanhope really is talking tripe. While he stared down the greens on supporting him as Chief Minister as he knew they’d never support the Libs, on this occasion any brinkmanship will surely misfire.

What did stanhope’s adviser david dawes apologise for again? Misleading the assembly under oath? Didn’t he select this block of land in order to retain the industrial land for future sale?

Looks like govt involvement in the site selection to me.

That is a point – Stanhope might use the “call in” powers to approve this project. That would be a real test of whether the Greens were an extension of the ALP, or were going to play a sincere role from the crossbench. The independent response would be t move no confidence (if not in the govt, then at least in Stanhope).