Page 804 - Week 04 - Tuesday, 16 June 1992
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Circus Animals
The petition read as follows:
TO THE SPEAKER AND MEMBERS OF THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY FOR THE AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY
The petition of certain residents of the Australian Capital Territory draws to the attention of the Assembly that animals in circuses are:
1) Confined in small living areas for long periods of their lives.
2) Transported in cages and trailers over considerable distances.
3) Required to perform unnatural and often frightening behaviour for human entertainment.
Your petitioners regard the subjection of animals to these conditions as cruel and unnecessary, and request the Assembly to ban from performance in the ACT all circuses which include animal acts or animal side shows.
Petition received.
QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE
Premiers Conference
MR KAINE: I would like to address a question to the Chief Minister and Treasurer. It is in connection with the Premiers Conference that was held last Friday. I ask the Chief Minister whether she would clarify what the outcome of that Premiers Conference was for the ACT. In amplification of the question, Madam Speaker: The only figures that I have seen of the amount of money that the Territory obtained in the Premiers Conference have been quoted in the media, and three figures were quoted - $375m plus $15m plus about $4m - which add up to $394m. The Chief Minister has said that this represents something in the order of 6.5 per cent less than what she expected. I would like to know whether the Chief Minister would tell us precisely what the Commonwealth offer was, and precisely how much we in fact have received as a result of the Premiers Conference. I would like that related to the $600.8m projected in the forward estimates as the amount of money which presumably the Government expected to get from the Commonwealth this year.
MS FOLLETT: Madam Speaker, I thank Mr Kaine for the question and I am only too pleased to clarify the matter for members. By way of background I say to Mr Kaine that in going to the Premiers Conference, the financial Premiers Conference, my position was that of the Grants Commission's 1992 update, which quite clearly contained further transitional funding for the ACT. In the negotiation and debate on the ACT's revenue grant prior to the Premiers Conference, the figure for transitional funding that was put forward by the ACT was some $20m.
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