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Unions will no doubt have many issues to raise. There is much negotiation to be done and many provisions to be drafted, by both the Commonwealth and the Territory, and when the job is done I want to be able to say that we have the best system of public sector management in Australia.
In speaking of our vision and in looking forward to our new separate service, it would be remiss of me if I did not recognise what has been achieved in public administration in the Territory since the Commonwealth first announced, a short six years ago, the final form that self-government in the Territory would take. Employees from 10 Commonwealth departments, five major statutory authorities and numerous smaller agencies, totalling 140 in all, were moved into one administration which subsequently became a Government Service devoted solely to serving the residents of the ACT.
An Office of Public Sector Management was established in 1990, both to advise the Chief Minister in relation to her ministerial responsibilities for managing the public sector and to assist the Head of Administration in the management of the public sector. The Corporate Services Bureau and the Corporate Services Management Board were established in 1991 to streamline the management and delivery of corporate services to the public sector. The Corporate Services Management Board evolved in October of this year into the ACT Government Service Board. The board consists of agency heads and has a charter to advise on and manage not only corporate services but all matters of public administration in the Territory.
Madam Speaker, in a few short years we have moved in public administration in this Territory from a collection of units attached to a large number of Commonwealth departments to an excellent Government Service managed collegiately and with ever increasing efficiency. The time has now arrived for us to take that final step by severing our remaining dependence on the Commonwealth and on the Australian Public Service. We will do it carefully; we will do it in a consultative fashion; and above all, Madam Speaker, we will do it well.
BOARD OF HEALTH - FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE REPORT
MRS CARNELL (3.21): I seek leave to move a motion regarding the availability of the September quarter Health figures.
Leave granted.
MRS CARNELL: I have copies of this motion, which is quite long. Could they be circulated?
MADAM SPEAKER: Yes.
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