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cultural development is treated as a significant factor in the overall planning process; and assisting in the development of the Governments public art program.

(b) initial meetings with representatives of national cultural institutions, of the tourism

. industry and of ACT school systems to establish

areas of common interest with the ACT Cultural

Council, and to discover how relations with the

Council can be strengthened and joint

endeavours facilitated, to be followed up by

appropriate actions to achieve those ends;. involvement in consultations between the Cultural Council and cultural groups; and contributing to interagency working groups on the preparation of advice to Government.

.(3) Tenders were not called for the consultancy. Consideration was given to the claims and availability of officers within my portfolio, and arts-related organisations who would be suitable to undertake the task. No-one, other than Mr Forward, was suitable and/or available for short-term . transfer. The cost of calling competitive-tenders was therefore considered unwarranted.

(4) (a) Mr Forwards relevant experience and qualifications are his work on education and the arts at the Australian National Gallery from 1983 to 1988 and at the first Centre for Australian Studies in China which he setup in Shanghai between 1988 and 1990;. and his work on public policy in universities in Australia, Japan and China between 1962 and 1990, in a consultancy for a Commonwealth department in 1986=87 and* in ministers offices in federal

and ACT Governments between 1973 and 1992 - the. most relevant being his recent involvement with

community groups and-policy-processes in the

ACT as senior private secretary to the chief

Minister in 1991-92

(b) See above. .

(5) In comparison to other consultancies let by my , department the conditions-under which Mr Forward was engaged are not exceptional. .

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