Page 843 - Week 06 - Tuesday, 25 July 1989
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States; it has the endorsement indeed of the ACT Government. I think that the Federal Government, in wanting to take an overview like that, is performing a very great service, so I expect that we will benefit from that strategy but not in a direct financial grant way.
Cost of Visit to Wentworth
MR COLLAERY: My question is directed to the Chief Minister. In view of her response to the supplementary question of my colleague Mr Humphries, will she advise whether the ACT ratepayers bore the cost of her trip by private aircraft to the Bullamakanka launch? If so, will she confirm that she has now added a stunt pilot to her expanding entourage?
Mr Berry: We have got a stunt pilot here, Bernard.
MS FOLLETT: I think we have a couple in here, actually. I thank Mr Collaery for the question, and I can assure him that I attended the events in Wentworth as a guest of the Prime Minister, and I travelled to Wentworth and back again on the Prime Minister's aircraft. So, as far as I am aware, no expense at all was incurred to the ACT ratepayer.
Mr Kaine: Was the pilot a stunt pilot?
MS FOLLETT: He was an excellent pilot.
Bruce Stadium
MR STEFANIAK: My question is directed to the Minister for Industry, Employment and Education. Which other sports will use the Bruce Stadium when the Raiders move there, given that the specifications of the ground will be inadequate for top-class VFL teams and also baseball teams in the proposed Claxton Shield that he suggests is to be played there and given that no sporting bodies yet know the cost of using the ground and that many touted to use it are already committed to other grounds - namely, the VFL to Football Park and the cricket to Manuka Oval?
MR WHALAN: I thank Mr Stefaniak for the question. Members will be aware that the Government is committed to the redevelopment of Bruce Stadium as a multipurpose sporting venue, and to that end it has entered into consultations with all the major sporting groups.
A member: Ball playing?
MR WHALAN: That is probably something in which Bill specialises. One group has finalised an arrangement with the ACT Government in relation to the use of Bruce Stadium, and that is the Canberra Raiders, so it has a commitment to
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