Page 982 - Week 04 - Tuesday, 19 March 1991
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Belconnen Remand Centre
MR STEVENSON: My question is to the Attorney-General, Bernard Collaery, and concerns what would appear to be the unnecessary expenditure of taxpayers' money. I believe that a training course was recently completed at Warrambui for staff from the Belconnen Remand Centre, this being the final course in a series of courses, each one lasting several days and involving living-in arrangements. The question is: Why were the courses run at Warrambui at considerable expense and possible disruption to the Belconnen Remand Centre, when the Belconnen Remand Centre itself has its own training room which was added recently, only last year, at a cost of $100,000?
MR COLLAERY: Yes, there was a training session out at Warrambui. I do not know much about the content of the course, other than that it was an opportunity to train and retrain corrective services staff, particularly those who are undergoing retraining in relation to dealing with prisoners with emotional and psychiatric disturbances.
I do recall, however, that whilst they were there they joined, I think it was, the Sutton Fire Brigade, and saved a property from being burnt in a bushfire. I received commendations from the local shire in relation to some named officers, to whom I wrote personally to thank them for their extracurricular activities whilst they were out there doing the training.
The rest of Mr Stevenson's question, Mr Speaker, I will take on notice. I will give him a detailed response, setting out the curricula, times of instruction, and exactly what went on out there.
Mr Kaine: Mr Speaker, I request that any further questions be placed on the notice paper.
TAFE Programs
MR KAINE: Mr Speaker, I have been waiting for Mr Wood to come back. He asked me a question on 20 February, which I took on notice, and now that he is back I would like to provide that answer. His question had to do with the consolidation of campuses in the TAFE system and what the effects of those consolidations would be on TAFE students, and I would like to give Mr Wood an answer to that.
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