The Greens want to stop the state government from selling off public land without getting the green light from parliament first.
Party spokesperson for national parks and public lands Tabatha Badger said the Greens will move to make parliamentary approval a requirement for all public land sales.
“Parliamentary oversight for public land, land which belongs to everyone, is a basic and common sense measure,” she said.
“Allowing parliament to disallow the sale of public land would provide an important check and balance on any future government that wants to try to put a band-aid on the budget by selling off Tasmania.”
Badger said the move would bring state processes “more into line” with how local councils handle land sales.
Crown land is regularly sold across Tasmania. Parks and Wildlife is currently promoting four properties worth a combined total of about $654,000 that have been declared “surplus to government requirements”.
The lots add up to around 5.7 hectares and include vacant blocks in Derby, Ross and Beaconsfield.
Premier Jeremy Rockliff has rejected the Greens’ proposal outright, saying it would create unnecessary bureaucratic hurdles.
“It would be a massive tangle of green and red tape preventing a simple sale of Crown land that may well be for the purpose of putting more houses, therefore more roofs, over Tasmanians’ heads,” Rockliff said.
“We cannot afford to have green and red tape wrapped up and preventing us getting on with the job.”
