Ref: SARAH-JANE COLLINS February 24, 2010 THE AGE
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THE state government has scrapped plans to expand Melbourne's outer limits after a tax on land sales in growth areas was defeated in the upper house last night.
Planning Minister Justin Madden told Parliament that without the tax the government was not prepared to move the boundary, which would free up more land for development.
''We've made it very clear, time and time again, it would not be responsible to move the Urban Growth Boundary without being able to fund that infrastructure,'' Mr Madden said.
He accused the Liberals, Nationals and Greens - who used their combined numbers to defeat the bill - of pushing up house prices by reducing ''the market's ability to meet housing demand''.
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