Page 1392 - Week 06 - Tuesday, 1 May 1990
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wish to recycle. In addition to that, as of today, we have in place recycling facilities at Dickson and Hackett to cater for those environmentally conscious citizens who use the Ainslie Transfer Station as a recycling depot, not apparently those environmentally unconscious citizens who use the Ainslie Transfer Station as a place to dump their organically biodegradable stuff from their gardens - - -
Mr Wood: Their big branches and the like.
MR DUBY: The whole 240 tonnes of it, Mr Speaker - at least half of that every week. As I said, we are committed to upgrading recycling facilities, and we are doing so.
Tuggeranong Parkway - Telephones
MR STEFANIAK: I think it is about time we left Ainslie. My question is directed to the Minister for Finance and Urban Services.
Mr Wood: That is your whole attitude; that is the trouble.
MR STEFANIAK: Come on, Mr Wood. Let us go down to Tuggeranong. I refer the Minister to a letter that was published recently in the Canberra Times about the lack of telephones on the Tuggeranong Parkway. What does the Government intend doing about installing telephones on the Tuggeranong Parkway to improve emergency communications for motorists?
MR DUBY: Thank you, Mr Stefaniak. The Government has been concerned about the lack of telephone facilities on the Tuggeranong Parkway. I am pleased to announce that it has recently let a contract for the provision of those facilities on that parkway to cater for citizens from the south side who, for whatever reason, may have need to contact repair facilities or make calls to the police or the emergency services. That contract has recently been let. I believe that the first telephones will be installed on that parkway in a matter of months. There will be an appropriate, short walking distance between telephones; I believe it will be less than one kilometre.
Schools - Vacancy Rate
MR WOOD: Mr Speaker, as a resident of the northern suburbs and a co-writer of that report to which Mr Duby has been referring, I could draw some honest conclusions. But I will direct a question instead to the Minister for Health, Education and the Arts. According to the Canberra Times today, he is now quoted as saying that perhaps the vacancy rate in schools could be around 10,000. Why has it changed from 13,000? Does he concede that it was as a result of the figures argued by Dr Kinloch and the difficulty with those numbers, the concept and data?
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