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in the ACT if the tax burden on the local community is to be kept down to an acceptable level. The alternative, of course, is a tax burden so great as would drive out the employment and investment that would be essential for Canberra's future. The findings provide the basis for the ACT's legitimate claim to transitional arrangements beyond 30 June 1991, as promised by the Prime Minister.
The report also puts beyond doubt the need for further responsible financial management on the part of the ACT Government - something, regrettably, that the Leader of the Opposition has consistently closed her mind to. I present the following paper:
Commonwealth Grants Commission - 4th Report of 1991 on Financing the ACT - Ministerial statement, 16 April 1991.
I move:
That the Assembly takes note of the paper.
Debate (on motion by Ms Follett) adjourned.
BLUEPRINT FOR THE AGEING - PROGRESS REPORT
Ministerial Statement and Paper
MR KAINE (Chief Minister), by leave: Mr Speaker, I will table shortly the Government's progress report on implementing the Blueprint for the Ageing which was released last week to coincide with Seniors Week. In March last year, I launched the blueprint and I promised at that time to provide the Assembly with regular progress reports on its implementation.
The blueprint gave a framework for the implementation of an integrated five-year plan covering all aspects of the life of the elderly. I feel it is therefore appropriate, a year after the release of the blueprint, to outline to the community how the Government is progressing in implementing the strategies outlined in the blueprint. Clearly, some strategies will take longer than a year to implement. This was recognised at the time that the blueprint was developed and accounts for its emergence as a five-year plan in which realistic targets for implementation of policies can be realised. This report does not say, therefore, that policies have been implemented when there is still work to be done; rather, it identifies the progress to date.
This progress report on the first anniversary of the launch of the blueprint takes stock of the work that has been done to date towards achieving our strategies. It has been coordinated by a government agency committee which brings together all the relevant agencies within the ACT Government Service responsible for services and policies affecting the ageing.
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