Page 1814 - Week 09 - Wednesday, 18 October 1989
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her situation and are able to invoke the emergency provisions of the legislation should this be necessary.
The issue, as members may be aware from the article, arose when a magistrate dismissed the youth advocate's application for a declaration that the child was in need of care. That dismissal rested on a particular interpretation of the legislation, and the subsequent Supreme Court ruling by Mr Justice Kelly upheld the magistrate's interpretation. As this interpretation is inconsistent with the philosophy of the Act, my department is in the process of advising me on an appropriate amendment. Of course, that is a matter that will find its way into this Assembly in due course.
Cosmetics Manufacturer
MR WHALAN: I would like to provide information in response to a question from Mr Collaery yesterday in relation to the Revlon corporation. I would like to add this information to the material which was given in response to yesterday's question. Mr Collaery asked specifically had there been any discussions with Revlon. In response to the specific question on discussions I have had with Revlon Manufacturing Ltd, I can say that I have attended one meeting with the company, which was held in November last year, before self-government came into existence. That meeting was convened by Senator Bob McMullan and involved Senator McMullan, myself, senior representatives from Revlon in Australia and overseas, Mr Keith Lyon and Mr Roger Smeed from the Office of Industry and Development, and Mr Paul Perkins from ACTEW.
The purpose of that meeting was to impress on Revlon the Government's support for locating its operations in the ACT. There was no explicit discussion of details on any agreement. Attention focused on Canberra as a possible location vis-a-vis other interstate alternative locations which Revlon was considering at that time. In particular, we discussed the ways in which development could occur in the ACT under the leasehold system as an alternative to freehold opportunities in New South Wales, with which Revlon, particularly its overseas representatives, was more familiar. In essence, the meeting was very much a familiarisation and marketing exercise.
I am delighted today to provide details of the agreement with the Revlon Manufacturing group to undertake a major expansion of its Canberra operation. I see the group's expansion and transfer to Canberra as a major strategic success for the Government in its important task of expanding and diversifying private sector employment in the ACT in key industries.
The background is that the company first applied to the Canberra Development Board for the direct purchase of a site in August 1988 to establish a manufacturing, storage
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