Page 971 - Week 04 - Tuesday, 19 March 1991
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MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Speaker, there are two important things relating to Mrs Nolan's question about the national project. Mrs Nolan asked about our involvement in that project; I am just indicating what our involvement is. First of all, there will be work on an investigation into current work organisation in schools. It will include an analysis of teaching and other tasks performed by teachers. There could be consideration of alternative forms of work organisation and the training, career paths and rewards related to them. The potential outcomes of this working party, of course, are very significant for our ACT education system, among others. The second working party will consider options for a nationally consistent framework for teachers' qualifications, examining, in particular, national accreditation and professional standards.
Kingston Foreshore Redevelopment
MR STEVENSON: My question is to the Chief Minister, Trevor Kaine, and concerns the redevelopment of the Kingston foreshore area. On 14 February 1991, Mr Geoffrey Campbell, Chief Territory Planner of the Interim Territory Planning Authority, decided to introduce draft land use variations for the Kingston area in four weeks' time. It would appear that that has not yet been done. Now that the ACT has a fully fledged Planning Authority, what progress has been made regarding the preparation of land variation policies, and when will the authority be publishing this information in the government Gazette and making copies of the draft plan for Kingston available?
MR KAINE: Mr Speaker, I will take the particular points that Mr Stevenson has asked me on notice and get a comprehensive response, rather than giving him half a reply. I think that Mr Stevenson would know, as do other members of this Assembly, that the Government is in support of a redevelopment of that area. It is badly in need of redevelopment. But I am sure that Mr Stevenson would also know that there are very significant problems, in that not all of that land is Territory land. Much of it is Commonwealth land and much of it is designated land for planning purposes. So it is not simply a matter of this Government making up its mind what it intends to do. It has to work in concert with the Commonwealth. To put forward a comprehensive redevelopment proposal for that site would require a great deal of work, and it will obviously take a long time to get all the threads brought together. But I will take the specific questions on notice and give you a response, Mr Stevenson.
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