Page 2552 - Week 08 - Thursday, 19 August 1993
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I would like to draw attention to the fact that we are now coming up to some of the most significant of our tourism attractions in the Territory. As we move into spring we will be seeing the Floriade again. This year promises to be the best yet, if the poster is anything to go by. The poster is undoubtedly the best Floriade poster we have ever had. We will also have, following on the heels of Floriade, or in fact overlapping slightly with it, the National Australian Theatre Festival, which this year is being directed by Robyn Archer. It is all Australian; it is the very best of Australian theatre, and promises again to be very significant in tourism terms. We have also the tomb of the unknown soldier opening at the Australian War Memorial later this year. I believe that that will be a big event for us and, in its way, an added reason for people to visit Canberra. I welcome that new initiative as well.
Before I close, I would like to thank members of the Assembly for their support for the tourism industry, and I include in that the chairman and members of the Assembly's Standing Committee on Tourism and ACT Promotion. I believe that we all have the same interests at heart, and they are interests that are being very well addressed, and very actively and enthusiastically addressed, by the new advisory board for the Tourism Commission. I repeat that tourism is an important industry. Its prime importance at this time, I believe, is in its potential for further employment, in particular for young people in our community. I thank members for their comments.
MR WESTENDE: Madam Speaker, under standing order 47 I would like to make a personal explanation.
Leave granted.
MR WESTENDE: Just a few short minutes ago the Chief Minister said that I did not congratulate the board. I repeat the closing statement of my speech:
In closing, let me congratulate the members of the board on their appointment, and I wish them productive and successful years.
I did indeed congratulate the board, and I resent the statement the Chief Minister made.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
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