Page 2828 - Week 11 - Wednesday, 21 October 1992
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Health Services Consultant
MRS CARNELL: My question is to the Minister for Health. In answer to my question with regard to Ms Annie Austin, you informed the Assembly that she was employed as a consultant. Under what provisions of the Public Service Act was she appointed to the General Manager (Corporate) position, and what process was entered into when filling this SES position?
MR BERRY: Do you want the names and addresses of the people that were involved?
Mrs Carnell: No, just the process.
MR BERRY: This goes to the detail of the issue. I do not keep track of every appointment and discharge of every member in my portfolio. Mr Humphries did not even know how much money he was spending. At least we are on top of that side of it. I am not going to pretend that I know the names and addresses and all the details of all my employees. I can give a further report at a later date on the details Mrs Carnell has asked for. As resources are available to examine the issue and provide an answer to the question, I will provide it to the Assembly.
MRS CARNELL: I ask a supplementary question. Possibly this is a better way to approach it. Section 33AA of the Public Service Act states that all vacancies in the SES must be gazetted and that all positions should be subject to open competition. Can the Minister assure the Assembly that this provision of the Act has been complied with?
MR BERRY: I have told Mrs Carnell - - -
Mr Kaine: Just the fact that you could not answer the first one does not mean that you cannot answer the second one.
MR BERRY: Do not be so tetchy, Trev. The issue that has been raised is about an individual member of the public service, which has been pursued by Mrs Carnell for some days now, for some unknown reason. I will examine the circumstances she raises in the course of her question and report further. I do not keep the details of the appointment and the travellings of individual members of the service. In my portfolio area, there are thousands of them; I do not know their names and addresses. Mrs Carnell might be able to claim to know even their star signs. She is very zealous on these issues, particularly when it comes to personalities.
Children's Evidence
MRS GRASSBY: My question is to the Attorney-General. I refer him to the recently released report by the Australian Law Reform Commission on children's evidence. Can the Minister inform the Assembly on the report's references to the giving of children's evidence in the ACT?
MR CONNOLLY: Yesterday the Australian Law Reform Commission released a major research paper which was a survey of the experiment that has been running in the ACT since self-government in relation to the use of video evidence of children in the ACT Magistrates Court. For some years now, evidence has
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