Page 3274 - Week 12 - Thursday, 19 November 1992
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ring the noise pollution unit that you get an answering machine, because often it is at weekends or after hours. While on some occasions when the staff know that there is a major event at the weekend they will man the phones, they cannot always be on call. I am sure you will appreciate that as many complaints as not will emerge at night-time. Where at all possible, officers will respond to calls rapidly. I cannot assure anybody that officers will always be on hand to answer calls. Mr Westende, if you give me the details of the particular complaint, I will get back to you.
Tourist Drive Signage
MS SZUTY: Madam Speaker, my question without notice is addressed to the Chief Minister in her capacity as Minister for tourism. I gave her notice of my question earlier this afternoon. The Chief Minister this week provided the Assembly with details of new tourist drive signs around Canberra in response to a question by Mr Lamont. The signs are coloured plates with numbers and at times arrows on them designating which tourist drive they correspond to. For example, North Canberra and Belconnen signs are violet. Can the Chief Minister explain how tourists will recognise the significance of these signs and what literature is available from ACT tourism outlets to explain to visitors what attractions they can look forward to seeing as they follow the numbers and arrows around the ACT?
MS FOLLETT: I thank Ms Szuty for the question, Madam Speaker. I am advised that the details of the revised tourist drives are available from a number of sources, in addition of course to the signs themselves, which I think are much more prominent than had previously been the case with tourist advisory signs. If I can mention one such source, it is the official Canberra map, which contains introductory information and the tourist drive itineraries on the page which faces the main Canberra map. The Canberra visitors map also shows some detail of the new tourist drives. The tourist drive information in both of these sources is brief, and that is because both of them were produced prior to the Government's decision to go ahead with the new tourist signage strategy.
Individuals or organisations that produce tourist material and maps in the future will be provided with complete details of the tourist drives. Of course, the next print of the official Canberra map will include much more comprehensive information and informative descriptions of the six tourist drives. Madam Speaker, attractive and informative promotional material on the tourist drives will be prepared and installed at the Visitor Information Centre in Dickson. The Tourism Commission advises me that, should those arrangements prove inadequate, it will consider producing a special publication promoting the tourist drives and making access to those drives more readily available to our visitors, if that should prove to be necessary.
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