Page 1843 - Week 07 - Wednesday, 19 August 1992
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MR WOOD: Madam Speaker, we welcome the Commonwealth's initiative; it is an initiative from the Commonwealth that we would not expect to get in the unlikely event of a Hewson government. It shows a respect for the ACT and for the States that is clearly not evident in what John Hewson proposes. It is a step of interest to our schools. This is an outcome, among other things, of the Carmichael processes, which are, of course, heavily geared towards TAFE and training, but also to the upper secondary levels of schools. So the Federal Minister, the Federal Government, rightly has an interest in this area. I can tell you that it is our clear expectation that the ACT will receive $1.3m from this program. These details have yet to be worked through, but that is the clear impression that we have.
I might also add that the Federal Government is providing, in a different package of funds for non-government schools capital works, an amount I believe to be between $600,000 and $700,000, although I am a little less precise about that. These are sums of money that are welcome; they are useful; they will be well used in the ACT; and we know that we would never get them from the representatives of the people opposite.
Ms Follett: I ask that further questions be placed on the notice paper, Madam Speaker.
NON-GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS FUNDING - INQUIRY REPORT
Paper
MR BERRY (Deputy Chief Minister): For the information of members, I present a report on the Inquiry into Territory Funding of ACT Non-government Schools, prepared by George Berkeley for the Minister for Education and Training and dated 6 July 1992. I move:
That the Assembly takes note of the paper.
Debate (on motion by Mr Cornwell) adjourned.
DEPARTMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT, LAND AND PLANNING -
ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1991-92
Paper and Ministerial Statement
MR WOOD (Minister for Education and Training, Minister for the Arts and Minister for the Environment, Land and Planning): For the information of members, I present the Department of the Environment, Land and Planning annual report for 1991-92 and ask for leave to make a brief statement.
Leave granted.
MR WOOD: Madam Speaker, in presenting the 1991 annual report of the Department of the Environment, Land and Planning, I am sure that in the routine way I can draw members' attention to the fact that I believe that this is the first of the 1991-92 annual reports to be presented.
Mr Lamont: Congratulations.
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