Page 1534 - Week 08 - Wednesday, 27 September 1989
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$5,000 had been budgeted for the public schools night. The event was cancelled because of industrial action by the ACT Teachers Federation. The costs incurred in preparing for the public schools night totalled approximately $1,160 and, of this, $670 was spent on production of an information presentation package on the public schools system, which will be used at other venues on other occasions. Other expenditure incurred was for the printing of invitations and posters, postage, and clerical assistance. The cost of an advertisement concerning cancellation of the event was also included in the total.
ELECTRICITY AND WATER (AMENDMENT) BILL (NO. 2) 1989
Debate resumed.
MR WHALAN (Minister for Industry, Employment and Education) (3.01): Earlier today, we were debating the question of fluoride and the removal of fluoride from the ACT's water system, and we were raising on this side of the chamber the very obvious inconsistency between what the guiding principles allegedly are of the Residents Rally party and their refusal to allow community consultation on this very important issue before a decision is made to cut off the provision of fluoride in the water supply. I drew attention to the Residents Rally bible, or whatever it is they have produced - what is it?
Ms Follett: It is their vision, I think.
MR WHALAN: Their vision, the pink vision of the Residents Rally party. I drew attention to some aspects of the policy there which placed considerable emphasis on their commitment to consultation, and I referred to their section on social justice and welfare where they said:
The Residents Rally for Canberra is fully committed to ... consulting with the residents of Canberra at every level but with a special emphasis on consultation with the actual service providers.
Then I started to go through, and I will now continue, drawing attention to a number of policy areas of the Residents Rally party in which they seek to enshrine in their policy documents their absolute, total, unswerving, 100 per cent commitment to consultation before action is taken. Yet on this occasion I draw your attention once again, Mr Deputy Speaker, to the fact that they are party to a proposal to bulldoze through this Assembly legislation which has the most draconian consequences contained in it, without any concern for or any regard to their alleged commitment to consultation.
In their parking policy, for example, they undertook to review the parking in inner city suburbs. I suppose there is no vested interest with Mr Moore in relation to that,
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