Page 4363 - Week 15 - Tuesday, 19 November 1991
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QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE
Kingston Foreshore Redevelopment
MR STEVENSON: My question is to Mr Wood. In answer to my question on notice on 10 October on the development of the Kingston foreshore area, Mr Wood said that he did not believe that precipitate action in relation to the redevelopment of the foreshore area was appropriate or necessary. I ask Mr Wood whether he is aware that on ABC radio on 21 October 1991 Mr Brian Howe made a statement that there was a crisis in this country, that unemployment was skyrocketing, and that he wished to hear from unions and ALP branches about sustainable developments. Surely the Kingston foreshore is one such development. On 22 November this year at the Premiers Conference, Brian Howe again wanted to hear about sustainable developments for the better cities program. He said that he was funding research for such a program. Has Mr Wood presented the case for the Kingston foreshores to the Federal Minister?
MR WOOD: I have not presented to Mr Howe a case concerning Kingston foreshores. The Government has presented to Mr Howe, under the better cities program, a case on a range of projects. The first priority amongst those projects is the redevelopment of government flats in the Dickson area. That is important and has many benefits. In contrast to the proposal I have seen, it is practical, useful, realistic, sensible - all those terms - and is not pie in the sky, as the Kingston foreshore proposal I have seen appears to be.
Job Creation Programs
MR KAINE: I address to the Chief Minister a question which also, incidentally, has to do with employment. Can the Chief Minister outline to the Assembly any of the current government programs for the purpose of creating jobs in the ACT? How much money has been specifically allocated for this purpose and how many jobs have actually been created in Canberra so far, particularly for young people?
MS FOLLETT: I thank Mr Kaine for the question. I think most members will be aware that the current budget for the ACT - the Appropriation Bill is still before the Assembly and is still to be debated - contains a number of measures that could be viewed as creating jobs. Perhaps the most significant of those are the new policy initiatives we have taken which allocate a considerable sum of money to youth unemployment. We have done that in a variety of ways - in particular, and I am sure Mr Kaine is aware of these details, by doubling the youth traineeships within the ACT Government Service, by creating additional places at the TAFE, and by increasing substantially the funding to a number of non-government organisations who are concerned with unemployment and with assisting unemployed people to find useful work.
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