Page 2571 - Week 09 - Tuesday, 24 August 1993
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I am reassured by the comments last week of the members in this Assembly about the good process that is undertaken. It will be continuing with a range of other proposals that have emerged. I am confident that when each of those proposals comes back to the Assembly - if indeed they do emerge and do not drop out - we will have the same plaudits.
Band Festival
MR KAINE: I have a question to the Chief Minister and Treasurer. Last Thursday evening Mr Lamont stood up and gave a plug to an international band festival. "High School Band Festival" is the brochure to which he referred. I ask the Chief Minister and Treasurer: Is Mr David Lamont the same Mr David Lamont who appears from the program to be the principal behind this festival? If it is, was government support for this contingent upon Mr David Lamont, MLA being the principal behind this, and just how much support did the ACT Government give for this festival?
MS FOLLETT: Madam Speaker, I will take Mr Kaine's question on notice and get him a detailed answer on the matter, but I can assure him that Mr Lamont's support for this would not have been contingent upon any such arrangement. I cannot really answer for Mr Lamont, but I would take it that his support for the festival was because it was an activity which was of great benefit to Canberra, particularly in tourism terms and in bringing visitors to Canberra. It is the kind of activity that this Government would certainly support. Madam Speaker, I am not aware of the precise details of Mr Lamont's involvement in it. Perhaps Mr Kaine could await my reply on that. I will certainly check out the matter and give it to him as soon as I can.
MR KAINE: I have a supplementary question, Madam Speaker. Since the Chief Minister is going to take that question on notice, could she also determine who were the principals behind this festival? There is nothing here in the information, except a list of committee members, whatever that means. Could we have an idea of just who the principals were and what their backgrounds are?
MS FOLLETT: Madam Speaker, I will take that part of Mr Kaine's question on notice as well.
I would ask that further questions be placed on the notice paper.
Answers to Questions Without Notice
MS FOLLETT: I have two answers to questions which I took on notice last week, Madam Speaker. The first is from Mr Cornwell, who asked me a question about the effect of the Federal Government's budget on adult literacy programs. Mr Cornwell asserted that there was a reduction in the Federal Government's support for adult literacy programs. Madam Speaker, the answer to Mr Cornwell's question, put briefly, is that in fact the ACT expects to get an increase under the 1992 resource agreement with the Commonwealth so that the Canberra Institute of Technology will have $376,000 for adult literacy programs compared to $322,000 last year.
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