Page 3489 - Week 12 - Wednesday, 18 September 1991
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Given the time of day and the few minutes left, I would like to grind a very small axe, if I may, Mr Deputy Speaker. It is in connection with a very small item. I think it would be improper for me to refer to the budget, would it not?
Mr Collaery: No, go on.
DR KINLOCH: I want to say a very positive and welcome thing about the budget. I refer to "Program Information and Estimates 1991-92", page 231. I am really very pleased to see there something in relation to Signadou College. If you look at that portion of the budget program you will see that, whereas last year Signadou cost us something like $593,000, that has been taken over by the Commonwealth at a comparable or slightly larger amount, which brings me to the little axe grinding I am anxious to do.
Often you hear in public discussion people referring to our two universities, meaning the ANU and the University of Canberra. I would like more and more - and I ask members of the Assembly to join me - to talk about our six universities, or at least five; five plus another tertiary institution. I discovered one of them only within the last few weeks.
There is, first of all, the ANU; then the University of Canberra; and now the Australian Catholic University, part of a larger whole around Australia. I was very impressed at a seminar on Monday night to hear some details of their work and their courses. It is not only Catholics who are on the faculty; there are non-Catholics as well as Catholics. Then there is the University of New South Wales, which we sometimes talk about as ADFA.
The one I was very interested to discover - others will no doubt have discovered it - is a small operation in Canberra by Monash University. It is the David Syme Management Education Centre program - a program from Monash University. It is in the technology park that some of us visited recently. It is very well worth visiting. I was very impressed by it. They have a similar campus in Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia.
The last, if you include this in the six, is another composite part of a larger whole, part of a group body that gives degrees, and that is St Mark's Institute of Theology, which has direct connections with similar institutions in Sydney. So, you could say that Canberra now has six, or at the very least five, institutes of higher education.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Assembly adjourned at 4.26 pm
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