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Shake-up for South Bank board and how the future of parkland is decided
By Sean Parnell
Deputy Premier Steven Miles has extended the consultation period for the draft South Bank masterplan until a new board can be installed at the South Bank Corporation.
The South Bank Corporation board is set for a shake-up.
Miles on Friday announced feedback on the draft masterplan would be accepted until the end of January, not midnight on December 14 as outlined earlier this month.
In those extra weeks, the government will force a clean out of the eight-member South Bank board, bringing in new people to push the masterplan through to the next stage.
Miles named three government members to serve on a “smaller, interim board” that will have control for up to 12 months.
Under Treasurer Leon Allen will remain as chair, with senior bureaucrat Mike Kaiser also kept on the board, while the head of the Department of Premier and Cabinet, Rachel Hunter, will be a new addition.
“These are all highly experienced public servants, each with significant expertise in the areas of business, financial and community service, public sector and organisation management, stakeholder engagement and transition management,” Miles said in a statement.
Six other members of the board – Richard Kirk, Kyl Murphy, Michael Power, Tim Quinn, Marina Vit and Stephanie Wyeth – will leave when their terms expire at the end of December.
Brisbane City Council will get to nominate two members of the interim board but has yet to name any candidates.
Miles said the government intended to put a broader board in place “as soon as possible, including community and council representation”.
The South Bank Corporation Act states that the chair be appointed by the minister, and the board can have no more than seven other members appointed on the government’s nomination and no more than two members appointed on the council’s nomination.
South Bank has become a key part of planning for the 2032 Olympic Games, and is likely to be used to connect various venues and offer tourist drawcards such as new restaurants, a revamped maritime museum and potentially an Indigenous culture centre.