Page 1661 - Week 07 - Tuesday, 29 May 1990
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Follett Labor Government. This is projected to raise $4m in a full year. We make no apologies for this level of taxation because the X-rated video industry has no claim on this Government for protection. The Government will be introducing the relevant taxation legislation later in this session.
The Government will also simultaneously introduce legislation imposing severe restrictions on the open trade in X-rated video material. This will restrict the availability of these videos in the ACT and will generally tighten the prohibition on availability to minors anywhere in Australia. The Deputy Chief Minister will be releasing details of these measures.
The Government has reviewed parking charges in Civic and Woden, and increases of 25 per cent overall will apply from 1 July 1990. At the same time bus fares will rise overall by 8.6 per cent. The much lower increase in bus fares is directly aimed at increasing the attractiveness of using the bus for commuting instead of cars.
Motor vehicle registration for a standard passenger vehicle will rise to $150 from 1 July 1990. The combined ACT registration and third party charges will still be well below NSW rates. The low sum total of registration and third party insurance is largely due to reductions in third party insurance premiums determined by the third party insurance advisory committee. The Minister for Finance and Urban Services will be announcing the details separately.
A new scale of TAFE charges will be introduced as from second semester this year. Currently TAFE charges contribute 2.5 per cent to the overall costs of running the TAFE. The Government intends this to increase to 10 per cent of TAFE costs within three years. At the same time concessions have been reviewed to ensure that access and equity issues are fully addressed. The Director of TAFE is announcing the details of these new charges today.
Mr Speaker, I come now to the Priorities Review Board. As I said earlier, our financial situation is such that ad hoc, knee-jerk, short-term decisions are not acceptable.
Mr Berry: They are the order of the day for you lot!
MR KAINE: Well, you could not make any, so you should not talk.
Longer-term strategies, fully thought through, are needed. I will repeat this for Mr Berry's benefit: longer-term strategies, fully thought through, are needed. In developing such longer-term and more comprehensive measures to address the ACT's budget problems the Government was determined to have available the best possible information on the magnitude of the problems and the options available for addressing them.
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