The ACT should have a separate “”land account” so that the public could see what politicians were doing with the ACT’s $8 billion worth of public land, according to the Moore Independents. Moore Independent candidate Mark Dunstone condemned the Liberal Party’s policy of giving automatic renewals for business leases as pork-barrelling and giving community assets to favoured businesses “”at a time when we can’t even afford to properly fund our schools and hospitals”. He wanted an open account as recommended by several inquiries into Act land tenure. Present government-private joint ventures were only earning half the return that public land development should. “”It’s time the ACT public was given the information to judge what ACT Governments are up to,” he said. He called on Labor to state its commitment to the ACT leasehold system and indicate its support for 100 betterment tax when people changes lease purposes.