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I am sure Mr Wood is aware that TAFE has in place a campus consolidation strategy which aims progressively to consolidate TAFE onto fewer campuses, to better achieve educational and economic objectives. The institute currently operates on nine sites compared with 11 at the end of 1989, so the consolidation process has already begun. The object of this strategy is to permit better use of expensive equipment and libraries, to improve access by students to child-care and counselling services, and to better serve the ACT's total population, while also seeking to meet expected growth in Gungahlin-West Belconnen, and Jerrabomberra-Tuggeranong respectively.
Consistent with this strategy, three major initiatives have been taken. Firstly, another building has been constructed on the Canberra Avenue campus to accommodate panel beating and spray painting facilities previously housed in leased facilities in Fyshwick from this semester. Secondly, refurbishment work on the new southside campus, the former Woden Valley High School, is progressing well, to enable relocation from the inherited unsatisfactory Callam Street site at the end of this year. Thirdly, in the 1990-91 budget my Government approved design work for the extension of the Bruce campus to accommodate the School of Electrical and Electronic Studies from the Benjamin Way site. A construction project proposal for that is being prepared for Government consideration for inclusion in the 1991-92 capital works program.
Following on from the substantial progress with and the achievements of the strategy, site master planning studies of the institute's Bruce and Reid campuses are being undertaken in preparation for the consideration of future directions with respect to the remaining campuses. In all of these initiatives the key consideration is to ensure that maximum technical and further education opportunities are provided to the ACT community within available funds, while maintaining educational quality and balancing cost-effectiveness considerations.
SUBORDINATE LEGISLATION
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MR COLLAERY (Deputy Chief Minister): Pursuant to section 6 of the Subordinate Laws Act 1989, I present the following paper:
Tobacco Act - Exemption (S14, dated 8 March 1991)
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