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application generally of minimum standards of wages and employment conditions, and occupational health and safety standards and practices. These can be effectively secured only by the central conciliation and arbitration authority.
Mr Speaker, the ACT Government Service faces a severe challenge as the Government grapples with the difficulties of delivering its budget strategy. If we are to live within our means while maintaining the excellence of our public service, reform and restructuring will be necessary. While structural reform will need to reach into every area of our public sector, the change process will vary from agency to agency and from workplace to workplace. The agreements to facilitate the workplace productivity bargaining processes which are integral to Accord Mark VI will underpin the necessary structural readjustments in the ACT public sector.
The active cooperation of the Trades and Labour Council and the public service unions will be vital in managing the essential changes in a harmonious way. As the Minister responsible for industrial relations, I look forward to working closely with the unions to achieve these objectives. Implementation of the approach embodied in the accord is a further important step down the road to reforming our public sector. Mr Speaker, I present the following paper:
Wages policy - Government Service - Ministerial statement, 6 August 1991.
I move:
That the Assembly takes note of the paper.
Debate (on motion by Mr Collaery) adjourned.
HOSPITALS REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT - ACTON COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FEASIBILITY STUDY
Ministerial Statement
MR BERRY (Minister for Health and Minister for Sport) (4.50): I seek leave to make a ministerial statement on the hospitals redevelopment project, the Acton community hospital feasibility study.
Leave granted.
MR BERRY: This is a very important statement and before I go into the body of it I think I need to refer to a statement that was made by Mr Stevenson earlier in relation to what he described as Labor's promise to keep the hospital open.
Mr Stevenson: Yes, indeed.
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