Page 356 - Week 03 - Thursday, 1 June 1989
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provides for the formation of a disciplinary appeal board to hear any appeal against disciplinary action taken. A disciplinary appeal board comprises a chairperson nominated by the Minister and a nominee each of the Chief Education Officer and of the ACT Teachers Federation.
The board is a statutory body and is responsible for determining its own procedures. In this case the board decided that it would be preferable to obtain the children's evidence without their parents being present.
MR STEFANIAK: I ask a supplementary question of the Chief Minister. How can the board possibly decide that when that is contrary to all legal practice in the ACT Magistrates Court and the Supreme Court, unless the parents were witnesses to the incident?
MS FOLLETT: Mr Speaker, I consider that the question has been answered. I have said the board is a statutory body and is responsible for determining its own procedures.
SCHOOLS OFFICE
MR MOORE: My question is directed to the Deputy Chief Minister. Is it the case that a move is under way to integrate the non-government sector into the Schools Office?
MS FOLLETT: I will take that question on notice if I may, Mr Speaker.
MR MOORE: Mr Speaker, perhaps I can go a little further.
MR SPEAKER: Is this a supplementary question?
MR MOORE: I would have put a supplementary question on that, because if it is taken on notice we shall not be back here for three weeks. May I include in my question: What consultation process is envisaged for the government sector, non-government sector and the broader community?
CONFECTIONERY PRODUCTS
MR KAINE: I would like to direct a question to the Minister for Community Services and Health. Yesterday the Minister made a statement about No Tobacco Day and the fact that he is mounting a campaign to prevent smoking particularly amongst women. But in connection with that I would like to draw his attention to two products that are sold in the confectionery stores in Canberra. I have in my hand one - and I am quite prepared to have these incorporated in Hansard if that is possible - and there is another. That one is called "Fags" and is made up to look like a cigarette packet. They are sold to children, and I
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