Page 4492 - Week 14 - Thursday, 9 December 1993
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Again, this is a very important recommendation. The fifth recommendation is:
Require that each Government Agency include a long term strategic component in its Annual Report, which outlines the Agency's actions which are designed to realise elements of Vision for Prosperity and subsequent strategic Visions.
Recommendation 6 is:
Request other relevant organisations, including businesses, to also comment in their Annual Reports on their contribution to the realisation of the strategic Vision.
Again, it is very important for government agencies to pick up the work which has been done initially in this report and to build on it for the future. The final recommendation is:
Designate a Minister to be responsible for Long Term Strategies.
I would dearly love to see this recommendation adopted. I sincerely hope that the Chief Minister herself would become the Territory's Minister for long-term strategies for the future.
In conclusion, Madam Speaker, I feel that the Canberra in the Year 2020 study has been a very worthwhile exercise. It was a good idea of mine, and I am very proud and pleased that I recommended it to the Assembly for adoption. I think it has been magnificently achieved by the reference group, the ACT Government and all those who have contributed to the process. I believe that it is only the beginning of the process. The work needs to go on to enable us to attain the vision of prosperity envisaged for all of us in the year 2020.
MS FOLLETT (Chief Minister and Treasurer) (4.24), in reply: Madam Speaker, I would like to thank members for their contributions to this debate. I join with Ms Szuty in her general remark that this has been a very worthwhile exercise. I do not believe that at the time Ms Szuty introduced the motion for the 2020 study in the Assembly any of us could have realised what a far-reaching and important study it could end up being. I consider that the reference group chaired by Dr Peter Ellyard has done a superb job, and I know that all of the members of that reference group worked extraordinarily hard in putting together their views and in consulting widely with the community in the course of preparing the report on Canberra in the year 2020.
Madam Speaker, what the reference group has come up with is, as we know, a preferred future for Canberra. That means, by definition, that the challenge now is to achieve that preferred future. In achieving that preferred future we must, of course, put in place the kinds of strategies and implementation plans that will ensure that we actually achieve the kinds of outcomes that are encompassed in the report.
Madam Speaker, one of the things that I like best about the Choosing our Future report is the fact that it is so goal oriented. I believe that setting specific goals in each of the areas under review is an enormous help in developing the correct policies, the correct strategies, for achieving those goals. The goals themselves
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