Page 4642 - Week 16 - Tuesday, 27 November 1990
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Mr Wood: We are back to the text now, are we? Which ones are you picking from?
MR DUBY: I have lots of speech notes and they all point out good points which you cannot counter. Approval of these Bills will provide the Government with the framework to implement its decision, announced earlier this year, to abolish the CDF and to introduce new and more appropriate arrangements for funding community organisations. That is what this debate is all about.
Mr Wood: Were not the other ones appropriate?
MR DUBY: No, I do not believe that they were. They were not appropriate. I think anyone who is a thinking member of this community will agree that they were not appropriate. What we were having was a hierarchy of community groups who were, in effect, hijacking those CDF funds.
Debate interrupted.
ADJOURNMENT
MR SPEAKER: Order! It being 9.30 pm, I propose the question:
That the Assembly do now adjourn.
Mr Collaery: I require the question to be put forthwith without debate.
Question resolved in the negative.
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FUND (REPEAL) BILL 1990
[COGNATE BILLS:
POOL BETTING (AMENDMENT) BILL 1990
GAMING MACHINE (AMENDMENT) BILL (NO. 2) 1990]
Debate resumed.
MR DUBY: Under the new arrangements it is proposed that from 1 January 1991 community organisations will receive funding from the Consolidated Revenue Fund in a manner similar to that of other ACT budget operations. In formulating the budget for community funding, Ministers will continue to be able to consult and take advice from relevant organisations. The nature and level of funding to be provided, however, will be determined and prioritised in the context of the overall budget position, something which the Labor Opposition has never been able to understand or even comprehend, let alone implement. The funds will be
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