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Ballina MP Don Page today announced the NSW Liberal/Nationals Coalition would exempt 39,000 families and small businesses from paying land tax by raising the land tax threshold to $415,000. Mr Page said the NSW Coalition would raise the threshold by $47,000, from the NSW Labor Government’s $368,000 to $415,000 in 2007/08. “Raising the threshold will [...]

The Land Acquisition (Just Terms Compensation) Act needs to be amended in two important ways, Ballina MP Don Page has told landowners at Newrybar. Speaking at a symposium of landowners affected by the Pacific Highway upgrade, Mr Page said two amendments were necessary ‘to deliver justice for landowners because they’re not getting it now’. The [...]

The NSW Liberal/Nationals Coalition will provide stamp duty concessions to rental accommodation investors to help address the affordable housing crisis, Shadow Minister for North Coast Don Page said. Mr Page said the NSW Labor Government’s poor property policies like vendor tax and land tax discouraged investment in rental properties, exacerbating the rental accommodation crisis. He [...]

Large land tax bills are still discouraging North Coast residents from property investment despite the introduction of three-year averaging for land values, Shadow Minister for North Coast Don Page said today. Mr Page said that while the averaging system was better than basing land tax liability on yearly fluctuations in land values, it would do [...]

How does Ballina Shire Council rate in comparison with other local government areas in NSW? The State Government’s annual review for 2004-05 can be viewed in full at the Department of Local Government’s website. Here’s just some of the satistics and comparisons with other councils (Ballina Shire is ranked in Group 4, with the ranking [...]

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Ballina Shire Council today voiced its opposition to a proposed seven-storey development on the riverbank just west of the RSL Club. The council voted to advise the Department of Planning that the Ballina Gateway project be amended to comply with the Ballina Local Environment Plan (LEP) and the Combined Development Control Plan (DCP). Parts of [...]

Member for Ballina Don Page has turned the first sod at the new Watermark Apartments site at Ballina, marking what he says is a significant step in the development of the town’s waterfront precinct. Mr Page said the $6.6 million development located at Fawcett Street would replace the recently demolished Golden Eagle flats. “The six-storey [...]

Ballina Shire Council has prepared its draft Management Plan for the financial year 2006/07 and the plan includes a proposal to apply to the Minister for Local Government for an increase in rate income of 3.72 per cent above the NSW rate pegging limit. The council says the draft Management Plan outlines items such as: [...]

The NSW Labor Government had shown a lack of interest in the issues facing farmers in voting against a bill that would protect legitimate farming activities from complaints from neighbours, Member for Ballina Don Page said today. Mr Page introduced the Protection of Agricultural Production (Right to Farm) Bill to Parliament. He said the bill [...]