Page 2610 - Week 10 - Wednesday, 14 October 1992
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MR BERRY: It is a notional budget for the Independent Complaints Unit in its early stages. It has been put out for public consultation and comment in good faith. We are not fooling around. If there are suggestions which aim for different classifications, then that might well be the outcome in the final analysis. But it is genuinely up for public consultation and comment, and if you do not like any of the classifications which you say are proposed you can propose something else and we will listen to you.
Australian Construction Services
MR DE DOMENICO: Madam Speaker, my question without notice is to the Chief Minister. Is she aware that Australian Construction Services is tendering for work in competition with the private sector in the ACT? If she is so aware, will she make representations to her Federal colleagues to cease this, as it is affecting work opportunities in Canberra?
MS FOLLETT: That is an extraordinary question, Madam Speaker, the point of which, I am afraid, is somewhat lost on me. I am not responsible for Australian Construction Services; it is a Federal body. It has always been my impression, Madam Speaker, that when they successfully tendered for work they employed people to do it, in the same way as, for the most part, the private sector does. Additional work given to that body is additional work in the construction industry, just as if a contract had been given to a private body. I think the answer to Mr De Domenico's question is that I do not have it in mind to make representations along the lines that he has requested; nor do I think it appropriate that I should do that.
Proposed Lanyon High School
MR CORNWELL: Madam Speaker, my question is directed to Mr Wood, the Minister for Education. Has any decision been made about the proposed Lanyon High School which I understand was under consideration following the decision not to proceed with a high school in the Monash area? Could you comment on the status of the Lanyon High School proposal?
MR WOOD: Madam Speaker, it is an issue of which I am well aware because the member who sits behind me, Ms Ellis, never stops talking to me about it.
Mr Cornwell: She never stops talking about anything about Tuggeranong. But go on.
MADAM SPEAKER: Order!
MR WOOD: No; but she is a very effective representative for Tuggeranong. She keeps this issue well before me. The Department of Education at present is working up a proposal on this issue, which I will see shortly. I expect that Cabinet will consider it and make a decision in the appropriate period of time.
MR CORNWELL: Madam Speaker, I would like to ask a supplementary question. Could you tell me what you regard as the appropriate period of time, Minister?
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