00:00Complex and unwieldy are the more polite descriptors.
00:06Australia's worst planning system.
00:09Not only the worst system in the country, but the worst system pretty much in the world.
00:13But the diagrams said it best.
00:15This is the current planning system today.
00:18Complicated, difficult to navigate, to build a house, to build an apartment.
00:23You have to run through that maze.
00:26A bill introduced to Parliament today promises to slash red tape.
00:30The centrepiece is the Development Coordination Authority,
00:33a single front door for advice on behalf of all government agencies.
00:37Entrenched in legislation will be the three-person panel
00:40assessing state significant developments, the Housing Delivery Authority.
00:44And the onus will be reversed so small changes like renovations
00:47are deemed authorised unless rejected by a council within ten days.
00:51That's going to be a lifeline to cut out the time that sort of months
00:55and dads and homeowners often spend getting their house applications through.
00:59It can't get any worse than it is at the moment.
01:01The reforms are the product of bipartisan work.
01:04Oppositions shouldn't always oppose.
01:06The Coalition has provided input for months.
01:09I can't emphasise enough how pro-housing, how pro-reform we are.
01:13While the opposition has sounded support, the Greens have voiced criticism,
01:17saying the proposed new authority could silence legitimate concerns
01:20from independent government agencies.
01:23Developers have been calling for this in New South Wales for a long time
01:27and today they have been delivered the gift.
01:31The reforms are the biggest changes to planning laws enacted almost 50 years ago,
01:35but housing advocates warn it's no quick fix.
01:38This is a generational challenge and it's going to take a generation to unpick.
01:42So future generations have somewhere to live.
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