Page 943 - Week 03 - Thursday, 14 March 1991
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There is no suggestion of any impropriety or lack of control over long service leave credits. It is simply that a detailed check of individual credits against estimated total credits has not been made. If it were done now, the clerical cost of doing it manually would be significant. Once a computerised human resource management system is in place, within the next year or so, this check will be made each year without difficulty. The question of building assets is not related only to the Department of Education.
Although it has been presenting accounts on an accrual basis for several years, the public school system has not been expected to bring to account depreciation costs for school buildings. Under the guidelines for financial statements of ACT entities, there is now a requirement to include building assets and associated depreciation in financial statements. Clearly, there are issues about how this should best be done, which will need to be worked through for all government buildings, not just for schools. The ministry is examining ways in which these issues can be addressed.
MR MOORE (3.19): Mr Speaker, I would like to draw attention to a mistake in the annual report of the Australian Capital Territory's Department of Education. The caption under the picture on page 12 says, "Mr Gary Humphries, Minister for Health, Education and the Arts, with students from Ainslie Primary School". Actually the photograph was taken on the occasion of the forty-fifth birthday of the Reid Preschool. The students were in fact at that time students of the Reid Preschool - except for the small one at the bottom, who is my daughter and who in fact is not a student of any school at all.
MR SPEAKER: Thank you for that observation, Mr Moore.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
NORTHBOURNE OVAL
Ministerial Statement
MR KAINE (Chief Minister), by leave: Mr Speaker, I would like to advise the Assembly that the Government has approved a variation to policy for Northbourne Oval. This variation will ensure that the oval is retained for recreational uses and will not become available for housing development. Northbourne Oval has a very strong link with Canberra's heritage. It was first identified as a park by Walter Burley Griffin and has been in use as a sporting oval since 1927. The pine trees around the oval were planted by Thomas Weston as part of the landscaping carried out to establish the character of early Canberra. The oval has played a major part in Canberra's sporting history and its location close to Civic centre gives it enormous potential for serving the city's recreational needs into the future.
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