The Local Government Electoral (Transparency and
Accountability in Local Government) and Other Legislation Amendment
Act 2016 was passed by the Queensland Parliament on 10 May
2017 and commenced on 19 May 2017. The building work and planning
aspects of the legislation was the subject of an article in the
latest edition of our publication,
Envisage and the background was discussed in our paper
"
Understanding the Gerhardt Cases and their
Implications." That paper was tabled in State
Parliament by the Shadow Planning Minister, Ian Walker during the
second reading speech of the Bill and has been incorporated in Hansard.
While the building work aspects of the Bill were amended during
the debate and ultimately passed, the Deputy Premier and Minister
for Infrastructure and Planning, the Honourable Jackie Trad, gave
an undertaking to the Parliament to form a working group of
concerned industry bodies to consider whether the changes are
likely to have any unintended
