Question & Answer – UTAS Land Sale Bill – Minister’s involvement

November 5, 2025

Ms WEBB question to MINISTER for EDUCATION, Ms PALMER

Wednesday, 5 November 2025

Following up from a previous sitting week, I asked the minister with reference to the proposed rezoning and sale of University of Tasmania Sandy Bay campus land and noting this question previously had been agreed to be taken on notice by the minister on 10 April this year, can the government detail the following:

(7) Whether the minister sworn in as Minister for Education on 11 April 2024 had any involvement in the development of the University of Tasmania (Protection of Land) Bill 2024 after 30 September 2024.

(8) Whether the Minister for Education had any involvement in the lastminute amendment to the bill introduced on second reading on 28 November 2024, which provided for rezoning and sale of UTAS land? And if not, why not?

(9) If the Minister of Education was involved in the development of the 2024 bill and November amendment moved by the government, what was the nature of that involvement?

ANSWER

Mr President, in answer to question one, my answer is no. In answer to question two, which is on the involvement of the amendment to the bill, the amendment was a decision of Cabinet, of which I am a member, and in answer to question three, I refer to my previous
answer.