Page 2707 - Week 13 - Tuesday, 21 November 1989
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Existing funded organisations will receive 6.3 per cent indexation on their current funding levels, backdated to 1 July 1989. Those organisations identified at this stage for receiving recurrent funding will be indexed to 31 June 1990. That summarises the entire funding process and the way that the Government has decided to approach applications from organisations like Parents Without Partners.
Bus Service
MRS NOLAN: My question is to Mrs Grassby, Minister for Housing and Urban Services. What is the Government doing to ensure a bus service to the suburb of Greenway on the shores of Lake Tuggeranong to enable residents of that suburb access to the Government's social justice strategy for transport?
MRS GRASSBY: I thank Mrs Nolan for the question. I did have some information on Greenway buses, but it has been changed. I will have to get back to you.
Showjumping
MR WOOD: I direct a question to the Minister for Housing and Urban Services. Minister, I am sure we all applaud the significant showjumping event that we are to host next year. I am sure we are also aware of the considerable amount of work and cost that has gone into the development of Glebe Park, especially the grassing of that park. Minister, can you assure the Assembly and the community that there will be no cost to them for this event?
MRS GRASSBY: I thank Mr Wood for the question. The ACT Showjumping Club is proposing to hold the finals of the World Cup showjumping trials in the grounds of the Parkroyal Hotel on the Australia Day weekend. That is where most of them are to be held. It is not ACT land. The organisers have, however, approached me to establish whether a small section of Glebe Park could be used for marshalling and exercising the horses. ACT Parks and Conservation staff will devise a system for protecting and restoring the park surface. As part of the weekend activities, some horses would be stabled in the grounds of the TAFE College. The proponents will need to guarantee to make good any damage to the park and to minimise disruption to the public. I understand that the showjumping event will be nationally televised and that it has great potential to contribute to the nationally recognised sporting weekend that we hold in Canberra each year as part of the Australia Day celebrations.
When the organisers approached me and I found out that they wanted to use only a certain part of Glebe Park, I stated
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