Page 1109 - Week 06 - Thursday, 27 July 1989
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One hopes that some of their course can now be conducted on the campus and they will not have that broken-up training situation which, of course, other tertiary students will not put up with but which nurses, who often do not get enough equity in the system, have been putting up with.
Mr Speaker, the other aspect of the referral that interests me and does concern me - and I wish to put it on public record now, just in case something happens - is that the urban fire service proposition does not include a new fire station for the proposed Yarralumla site. Now, many Canberra people are not aware that with the closure of the Forrest fire station and the move of the fire station to Fyshwick, the normal eight-minute time zone I believe which the fire service has put on itself to reach any area within a circuit is breached at the moment because the areas in Yarralumla - at least in that area and maybe even the Prime Minister's modest little dwelling - cannot be reached by a fire machine within eight minutes. Now, one hopes that nothing happens there and that any barbecues being held further up the line, at Government House, do not get out of hand.
Mr Speaker, that is a program that has not been announced for Yarralumla. It is not within the purview of the committee, but I do draw to the attention of the Assembly that that decision to give priority to Greenway may be a question of choosing between two of your children. When you are talking about public safety - the Deputy Chief Minister is amused by something - really, that is something that we needed to look at in the budget. We have not been able to, and it is not a reference to the committee.
Perhaps the Chief Minister would consider that aspect and make an amendment or a special referral to the committee to examine the situation of the residents of Yarralumla, and possibly Curtin, certainly Deakin West, where there are now commercial offices, to see whether their fire safety situation is within the standards and parameters that the fire service in this city, the marvellous fire service in this city, has set for itself.
Mr Speaker, finally, on behalf of the committee, I welcome the referral and assure the Assembly and the people of the ACT that we will work to our very best to give this the earliest possible attention.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
RATES AND LAND TAX (AMENDMENT) BILL 1989
MS FOLLETT (Treasurer) (4.46): Mr Speaker, I present the Rates and Land Tax (Amendment) Bill 1989. I move:
That this Bill be agreed to in principle.
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