Page 2221 - Week 08 - Thursday, 10 September 1992
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ADJOURNMENT
Motion (by Mr Berry) proposed:
That the Assembly do now adjourn.
Employer of the Year Awards
MS ELLIS (4.35): Members may recall that some time ago in this house I brought to the attention of members the work done by JobMatch, through the help of City Parks in Kambah, in the employment of some people from Koomarri. I also mentioned at that time that JobMatch, the people from Koomarri, had nominated City Parks for the Prime Minister's Employer of the Year awards. I would like to take this opportunity to follow up that particular discussion. As much as I would like to have seen the Kambah people to whom I referred earlier win, I was very pleased to see that the ACT winners of the Prime Minister's award were Masterman Kitchens Pty Ltd and the Corporate Services Bureau registry. Masterman Kitchens won the award for firms with fewer than 100 workers, and they employ a person with an intellectual disability as a trades assistant. The Corporate Services Bureau registry, which won the award for firms with more than 100 employees, has six people with disabilities in their employ.
I would personally like to pass on my congratulations to both Masterman Kitchens and the Corporate Services Bureau registry. I think that encouragement of employment of people with disabilities and impairments needs to be recognised by this community. The awards sponsored by the Prime Minister are to be commended. I would like this Assembly to take note of the awards won by these two organisations in Canberra. We hope to see many more companies take up the example given by these employers, including City Parks, and employ more people from our community in this way.
Government Service - Provision of Information to Assembly Members
MR LAMONT (4.37): Madam Speaker, I rise to correct the record in relation to a number of comments made by Mr Humphries this afternoon during the MPI discussion. Mr Humphries quoted from a document which was tabled by the Chief Minister in her response earlier today. That document, stamped 10 September 1992 by the secretariat, is a letter signed by Mr Stephen Hunter and dated 8 March 1991. To paraphrase the introductory letter, that document outlines a range of guidelines covering requests for information by members of the Legislative Assembly to ACT Government Service staff and officers of statutory authorities. Mr Humphries this afternoon went on to quote from that document, saying that those were the guidelines issued by the Alliance Government, and that they were different from the guidelines issued by this Labor Government.
Madam Speaker, the best construction I can place on that is that Mr Humphries misread the second part of the document tabled by the Chief Minister. That is probably the best construction. The worst construction I could place on it is that it was an attempt to mislead - - -
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