Page 2199 - Week 11 - Tuesday, 31 October 1989
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adopt as a matter of policy the urgent implementation of the Social Impact Survey recommendations relating to the epidemiological studies and the establishment of counselling, referral and education services.
Can the Minister advise what progress has been made in implementing this important recommendation?
MS FOLLETT: No, Mr Speaker. I will take that question on notice and advise the Assembly when I have had a chance to look at it in some detail.
Use of Schools
MR HUMPHRIES: My question is addressed to the Minister for Industry, Employment and Education. Is he aware of the joint submission by the Australian National College of Business and English and Belconnen Skillshare, an organisation to assist the unemployed, to develop the Page Primary School? Can the Minister say whether applications of a kind which preserve community assets for potential future community use, as this does, are preferred by the Government over ones which do not? Can he say when this and other applications for use of redundant schools will be considered by the Government?
MR WHALAN: The use of redundant schools, Mr Speaker, is currently the subject of a review of land use policy. In that process there have been draft variations in relation to those sites, and they include the sites at Watson, Phillip, Pearce, Fisher and Page. They were released in August, and they provided for the reuse of the school sites for community use and/or for residential developments. Over 50 submissions have been received in relation to those sites, and a consolidated report on all school sites is expected to be submitted to the Government before the end of the year.
Fun Run
DR KINLOCH: My question is directed to the Minister for Community Services and Health. We understand that a Legislative Assembly team of three persons took part in a recent athletic event, and I believe it could be said that those three persons have the most magnificent legs of any people in this building. I do not wish to make unfortunate comparisons at all - other people could enter that contest - but, having seen at least some of those legs, I think one can be allowed to say that.
Could the Minister give us the details of that team, its performance and, above all, the date and time on which we
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