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APPENDIX 1:
(Incorporated in Hansard on 12 October 1993 at page 3307)
CHIEF MINISTER FOR THE AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY
QUESTION WITHOUT NOTICE TAKEN ON NOTICE
26 AUGUST 1993
MR HUMPHRIES: I refer the Chief Minister to her comment yesterday quoted in the Western Australian in fact that Mr Charles Wright had been appointed to the ACT Tourism Advisory Board on the basis that. I quote "He has an excellent record as a businessman and is well respected". I ask the Chief Minister, can she confirm that Mr Wright is the same Charles Wnght who was a director of Canberra Publishing and Printing and Canberra Mail and Print Pty Ltd. Did those companies go into liquidation? Did they at the time owe the ACT Government hundreds of thousands of dollars in unpaid payroll tax, general rates, water rates or sewerage rates? Had the same companies not paid group tax to the Australian Taxation office for their employees? Did the employees of those companies not receive accumulated long service and recreation leave entitlements as a result of the companies collapse.
Does the Government believe that a person who has run two companies into the ground, owing hundreds of thousands of dollars, is a fit and proper person to advice the ACT Government on the business of tourism? In light of the Chief Ministers comments yesterday that Mr Wright had an excellent record as a businessman, and I assume you were accurately quoted, were you aware of any of the difficulties that his companies, companies he was associated with, had been in when you made the appointment of him as the head of the Tourism Advisory Board?
MS FOLLETT: I confirm that Mr Wright is the same Charles Wright who was a Director of Canberra Printing and Publishing; and Canberra Mail and Print. Those companies did go into liquidation. At the time Canberra Printing and Publishing went into liquidation Mr Wright was not a Director of that company.
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