Page 358 - Week 03 - Thursday, 1 June 1989
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COACH TRANSPORT
MRS NOLAN: My question is also to the Minister for Housing and Urban Services. Two days ago I asked a question of the Minister in relation to ACT coach charter, and I will repeat the question. Given that the New South Wales Government does not allow the ACT charter to operate in New South Wales, why does the ACT allow New South Wales charter and tours to operate out of the ACT? I went on to talk about employment and revenue that was lost through this practice. The Minister gave me an answer yesterday, but talked about allowing ACT charter to operate in New South Wales. I am not concerned about what is going to happen in New South Wales; I am concerned about the fact that currently New South Wales charter operators are coming in and competing with ACT operators. Could I have an answer to that question, please?
MRS GRASSBY: The answer to that question is that we have always had an open-door policy on that which New South Wales has not had, and unless we decide to change the law on that that would be so.
Mr Kaine: Are you intending to?
MRS GRASSBY: At the moment it has not come up, no.
MRS NOLAN: I ask a supplementary question. So I take it that you are not concerned currently in relation to the plight of those ACT charters?
MRS GRASSBY: It is not that I am not concerned. It is the fact that we have not looked at it as yet. I am going on past policy of the ACT, and this is not something that has come up at the moment.
COACH TRANSPORT
MR JENSEN: My question is directed to the Minister for Housing and Urban Services and is on a related subject to the previous question. Is the Minister aware that local tourist bus operators, after having to pay ACT licence fees and insurance, find they are competing with operators from New South Wales who can hire a bus and run tours in competition with licence paying local operators, or New South Wales bus tour operators who obtain a temporary permit for $24 to operate into the ACT which they continue then to operate illegally?
MRS GRASSBY: I would like to take that question on notice and check it all out with my department.
MR JENSEN: I put a supplementary question. In that case, will the Minister be prepared to have a meeting with local tourist bus companies in the ACT to discuss these and associated problems?
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