Page 714 - Week 03 - Thursday, 21 May 1992
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MS FOLLETT: Madam Speaker, I thank Mr Moore for the question; it is a very good question. I think at this stage it is fair to say that we are not quite at the point of having the feasibility study actually conducted for that freight centre at our airport. The exact position at the moment, as I understand it, Mr Moore, is that the NCPA has decided that the establishment of a freight centre at the airport would not be inconsistent with the National Capital Plan.
Members should be aware that this is a proposal which I favour and which I will pursue actively. I think it provides a very good opportunity for a new industry in the ACT and for a lot of spin-off industries to be created as well. Nevertheless, I take Mr Moore's point that that sort of a proposal could go ahead only after there had been the most stringent of inquiries as to its environmental impact, in particular, and, of course, the social impact as well. I can certainly say to Mr Moore that that would be the only condition on which such a proposal would go ahead.
Members' Staff
MR HUMPHRIES: My question is to the Chief Minister. The Chief Minister says that changed staffing conditions have resulted from a review of staffing conditions by the Office of Public Sector Management. She said that yesterday, I believe. Will the Chief Minister now table the OPSM report on which the staff changes are based, and will she task the OPSM to conduct a similar inquiry into the needs of other Legislative Assembly members rather than reviewing them by herself?
MS FOLLETT: Yes, indeed, there was a review conducted by the Office of Public Sector Management. It is a review that is fairly technical in nature. It is the old-style classification review that some people who may have been in the public service will be familiar with. It is a very thorough review and I think it is a creditable piece of work. I have no hesitation in making it available to members. I do not have it with me, so I cannot table it; but I am certainly happy to make it available, Madam Speaker.
If it is the wish of members to have a similar review conducted into their own staffing, then I would suggest, Madam Speaker, that they take that up in the first instance with you. I am happy to consider such a request if you see fit to convey it to me.
Development Projects - Task Force on Coordination
MS ELLIS: My question without notice is to the Chief Minister. I ask the Chief Minister whether the joint task force on coordination of Commonwealth and ACT projects, set up by her in February, has met. If so, what progress has it made on coordinating major Territory and Commonwealth development projects in the ACT?
MS FOLLETT: I thank Ms Ellis for the question. The joint task force on Commonwealth and ACT projects was a joint initiative announced by me and Mrs Kelly from the Federal side immediately following the One Nation statement. We made that decision in order to progress projects within the ACT, projects
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