Page 1936 - Week 10 - Tuesday, 24 October 1989
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their phones answered when I was trying to ring them up on a very important matter.
Public Service Strike
MR JENSEN: Mr Speaker, in view of the comments by the Chief Minister just a moment ago about the Government's workload yesterday, I ask: is she aware that the Health Minister cancelled a meeting with a community group because of the strike yesterday. Therefore, would she care to revise her statement about no meetings being cancelled?
MS FOLLETT: To answer Mr Jensen's question, I said that I cancelled no appointments yesterday. I am aware that at least one or probably two of my Ministers did cancel meetings where those meetings would have required unionists to cross the picket line. Those meetings have been rescheduled.
Cosmetics Manufacturer.
MR MOORE: My question is to the Minister for Industry, Employment and Education. Does he propose to require an environmental impact statement for the Revlon factory site at Hume?
MR WHALAN: The whole question of the environmental impact of the development at Hume has been the subject of some discussion within the Assembly here on an earlier occasion. The background to that was that the Government had outlined in some detail the environmental controls and safeguards which had been required of the Revlon company during the period when the lease for the site in Hume was being negotiated.
Members will be aware that reference was made in some detail to the requirements of ACTEW and to the provision on the site itself of primary processing of water leaving the factory site and secondary processing within the specific sewerage facilities that have been established in Hume for that purpose, before anything enters the main sewerage system. I would be prepared, Mr Speaker, to discuss this further with Mr Moore.
While answering this question I would like to report to the Assembly that, as a result of questions that were asked by Mr Collaery last Thursday in relation to the Revlon development - which is creating a substantial number of jobs, which is quite an important development for Canberra and one that we are all very proud of - Mr Collaery and Mr Jensen came to my office on Thursday night and were given complete access to the Revlon file. This was as a result of that barrage of questions on Thursday night, as WIN television described it, which I found quite an interesting
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