Page 4657 - Week 16 - Tuesday, 27 November 1990
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MR JENSEN: It is amounts uncommitted. It is available for commitment in future years. It is clearly available. Now, let me get onto the suggestion from the people opposite that there has been no community consultation on this particular issue. What a lot of nonsense! What a clear lot of nonsense!
Mr Berry: Well, demonstrate the community consultation.
MR JENSEN: I will do that right now, Mr Berry, if you will wait. This is a press release produced by Mr Collaery, the Deputy Chief Minister, Attorney-General and Minister for Housing and Community Services, and it states:
The Minister for Housing and Community Services ... announced plans for a wide-sweeping review of the Community Services Grants Program.
Mr Collaery said that community organisations had been unhappy for many years with the operation of the former Community Development Fund program.
He goes on to say:
No longer will community services be dependent on revenue from the gambling activities of people in the ACT ... The Community Development Fund will cease to exist. Instead, the various ACT Government Departments will receive budget allocations which include provision for funding community organisations.
... ... ...
Mr Collaery then goes on to say:
To ensure that the Program is responsive to the needs of the ACT community, a Ministerial Advisory Committee will be established. Comprising community representatives from a wide range of interests, this Committee will advise the Minister directly on priority areas of need under the Program.
That, Mr Berry and Ms Follett, and for those opposite - - -
Mr Berry: Will you table that?
MR JENSEN: I am quite happy to table it, Mr Berry. I will quite happily table that for you to have a look at. It continues:
Nominations will be sought from individuals with expertise and experience in services for children, women, the aged, young people, people from non-English speaking backgrounds, Aboriginals, families and people with disabilities.
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