Page 554 - Week 04 - Thursday, 29 June 1989
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City Plan
MR COLLAERY: My question is directed to the Chief Minister in her role as chief planner of the Territory. I refer her to her reply to my friend Mr Kaine, in which she indicated that the Interim Territory Planning Authority had advance notice of this advertised change to the city plan today.
I draw her attention to section 15 of the Australian Capital Territory (Planning and Land Management) Act, which requires the National Capital Planning Authority, amongst other things, to publish a notice in a daily paper circulated in the Territory, make the draft plan available for inspection, and consult with a variety of parties.
Does the Chief Minister believe that it is satisfactory for the Assembly's Standing Committee on Planning, Development and Infrastructure to find out about this matter by reading the daily newspapers? That is the first leg of the question. The second leg of the question is: Does the Chief Minister propose to speak to her Federal colleagues to ensure that this flagrant insult to the Assembly does not recur?
MS FOLLETT: I believe I have actually answered the substance of the question already, Mr Speaker. Mr Collaery has asked whether I think it is satisfactory that the Assembly's standing committee should find out about this by reading it in the daily paper. I do not think that my personal opinion on that matter is relevant or even appropriate in the circumstances, but I agree that actions by the National Capital Planning Authority could perhaps be a little better coordinated with what is occurring with the Interim Territory Planning Authority. That has been a matter of concern to me, not just in relation to this particular proposal at Braddon but also in general terms.
If there are specific difficulties or specific issues - technical issues and so on - that Mr Collaery wishes to pursue on this matter I would be happy to take up that matter privately or to take a question on notice. But certainly I take his point that we might have closer consultation between the national body and the Territory body on future occasions.
ACT Schools Office
MR MOORE: My question is to the Minister for Industry, Employment and Education. Is the Minister aware that the ACT Schools Office share of the overall education salaries budget was 7.6 per cent, yet in 1987-88 that share jumped by over 14 per cent to reach 8.7 per cent of the total salaries budget, at the same time as the Schools Authority was abolished, thereby abandoning any capacity to monitor Schools Office decisions affecting education?
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