AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

LAND (PLANNING AND ENVIRONMENT) ACT 1991

APPOINTMENT

No. 8 of 2001

Under section 97(1) of the Land (Planning and Environment) Act 1991 
I APPOINT:

MICHAEL ANTHONY QUALL

to be a member and Chairperson of the ACT Heritage Council for a period of three years from the date of gazettal.

Dated this 10th day of September 2001

Brendan Smyth  MLA
Minister for Urban Services

EXPLANATORY STATEMENT 
No. 8 OF 2001

APPOINTMENT OF MICHAEL ANTHONY QUALL AS A MEMBER AND CHAIRPERSON TO THE AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY HERITAGE COUNCIL

The Land (Planning and Environment) Act 1991 (the “Land Act”) governs the use of land in the Territory including the conservation of the Territory’s Heritage places.

Part III, section 91, of the Land Act establishes the ACT Heritage Council.  Members of Council are appointed by the Minister under section 97.

Members are appointed for a maximum period of three years, after which they may be re-appointed for a further maximum period of three years.  A break of three years must then lapse before a member can be further re-appointed.

This instrument appoints Michael Anthony Quall to be a member and Chairperson of the Council for a period of 3 years.

A brief Resume of Mr Quall’s background is attached.

Section 7 of the Subordinate Laws Act 1989 prevents a subordinate law from having effect if it would prejudice the rights of a person existing at the date of notification, or if liabilities would be imposed on a person in respect of any act or omission before the date of notification.  Neither circumstance will arise from the act of appointing the person named herein to the specified position.

Mr Michael Quall 						(Aboriginal Tradition)
Mr Quall has a Certificate in Office Administration and Certificate IV Workplace, Training and Assessment.  He is currently the Coordinator of Policy and Corporate in Youth and Community Services, Children’s, Youth and Family Services Bureau, ACT Department of Education and Community Services.  He has previously been employed as the Aboriginal Community Liaison Officer with the Australian Federal Police and worked in the Aboriginal Reconciliation Branch of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet.  Mr Quall has also been a keynote speaker at the Australian Youth Consultation on the World Conference Against Racism in Adelaide and participated in the Rotary Leadership Award in Canberra.  He also participated in the International Youth Forum Against Racism in Germany in 2000 and the Forum for developing Tomorrows Leaders, Queens Trust for Young Australians.  
Mr Quall was the ACT Finalist for Young Australian of the Year in 2001, ACT NAIDOC Youth of the Year in 2000 and Young Canberra Citizen of the Year in 2000.  He is a member of the ACT Children’s Services Council, Chairperson of the ACT Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Consultative Council and member of the ACT Indigenous Education Consultative Body.  Mr Quall is also a member of the ACT Steering Committee, International Year of Volunteers 2001 and of the Australian Capital Region Reconciliation Committee.