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Speaker 1: So changes coming to the Public Works Act, the idea

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Speaker 1: of being to make it easier to build stuff. There

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Speaker 1: is a review on how critical projects like you know, schools, roads,

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Speaker 1: water services can be built at pace. Minister for Land

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Speaker 1: Information Chris Pink is with us on this Chris morning.

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Speaker 2: Good morning.

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Speaker 1: Where does the Public Works Act fit into this jigsaw

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Speaker 1: you seem to be working through at the moment around

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Speaker 1: broadly rules about getting stuff done faster.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, look that's a really good summary. Actually, so

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Speaker 2: we're talking about unjustifiable red tape that slows down projects

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Speaker 2: and infrastructure and housing and all those things aren't necessarily

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Speaker 2: so one of the bigger plan of rebuilding economies, of

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Speaker 2: course getting some of these infrastructure projects going, and of

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Speaker 2: course the Public Works Act is really important part of

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Speaker 2: that because that says when all the consenting that takes

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Speaker 2: place and then you need the land occasionally, you know,

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Speaker 2: property is required to complete the road or the school

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Speaker 2: or the subjection or whatever it may be. Then there's

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Speaker 2: a big delay oftentimes while that's haggled on an individual

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Speaker 2: basis of landowners. And you know, we respect the right

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Speaker 2: of people obviously to get fair compensation, but there's a

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Speaker 2: lot of process and delay that we think we're going

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Speaker 2: to be able to avoid if we have a close

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Speaker 2: look at it, is.

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Speaker 1: That obvious process and delay you can avoid or is

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Speaker 1: it just you turning up with a bulldozer and saying, mate,

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Speaker 1: we'll have your house, thanks for coming.

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Speaker 2: No, I don't think it's about bulldozens because at the moment,

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Speaker 2: it's already the case that people have their land taken

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Speaker 2: off them in compulsory fashion, and what we wanted to

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Speaker 2: actually is get to that process a bit more quickly, ideally,

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Speaker 2: you know, for people who are willing buyers, willing sellers

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Speaker 2: at a fair market based kind of compensation. So it's

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Speaker 2: already happening that this takes place. It just happens so long.

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Speaker 2: But actually it's not in the interest of the landowner

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Speaker 2: to be mucked around for years either. And if you

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Speaker 2: think about the other landowners who might come to an

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Speaker 2: arrangement with the crown and they're now sitting around for

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Speaker 2: a long period of time, people are in high that

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Speaker 2: road at school, et cetera. So actually everyone wants if

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Speaker 2: we can reduce some of the unnecessary process in there.

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Speaker 1: At the moment, I wish you well, they're on the move.

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Speaker 1: You can't say they're not trying stuff, can you? Chris

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