Page 3032 - Week 11 - Tuesday, 10 September 1991
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MR STEVENSON: Recently there was an accident in Rabaul Lane, which is just outside the Assembly, off Nangari Street. It would appear that the accident was a low speed head-on, caused by two vehicles using the one lane that remains available when vehicles are parked on the side of Rabaul Lane. I saw another accident narrowly avoided within the last week because of the same problem. Would Mr Connolly please have the situation investigated, with the possibility of making it safer for pedestrians and vehicles?
MR CONNOLLY: I thank Mr Stevenson for his question. That is a very sensible thing to raise. I shall pursue the matter and see what we can do.
Mr Duby: You know what he will do now. He will close Rabaul Lane. Thanks very much!
MR CONNOLLY: If Mr Duby wants Rabaul Lane to be closed, I suppose that is one way of solving the problem of head-on collisions - simply closing the street. Perhaps we can come up with a more creative solution than that. I will have the matter looked into and report back to the Assembly.
Kippax Library
MS MAHER: My question is also to the Minister for Urban Services. Recently Mr Berry, the Minister for Health, quickly came forward to give assurances that the Kippax Health Centre will not close, at least during the term of this Government. Can the Minister for Urban Services give the same assurance about the continued operation of the Kippax Library?
MR CONNOLLY: I thank Ms Maher for her question. There are no government plans to alter, vary or change in any way the operation of the Kippax Library. I can say that there is no plan to change the status quo.
Chartwell Crafts
MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Speaker, my question is to the Chief Minister. It concerns Chartwell Crafts - an organisation which employs 13 disabled people, which received funding from the Alliance Government and which has now been denied continued funding by this Labor Government. Is the Chief Minister aware that the 13 disabled workers will very soon be thrown on the unemployment scrap heap, with very little prospect of finding alternative work, especially during this recession we had to have? Will she instruct her education and training Minister to meet with Chartwell Crafts to discuss the funding issue - something which she has so far refused to do?
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