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Recognising the need to minimise any disruption to members and their staff, during a non-sitting week training courses were conducted by representatives of the firm installing the network, prior to staff being connected. In addition, the installation was done during a non-sitting period. Unfortunately, the disruption which did occur yesterday, to which Ms Szuty referred in her question, resulted from an equipment failure, which was attended to immediately by the Serjeant and a representative of Cyberdyne. Once it was clear that the problem was a hardware fault, Cyberdyne promptly replaced the faulty equipment and restored service to users.
PAPERS
MR BERRY (Manager of Government Business): On behalf of Mr Lamont, I present, for the information of members, the following papers:
Report for the Review of the Delivery of Housing Assistance Program in the ACT, together with Directions and Actions for changing the ACT Government's Housing Program, dated September 1994, which has been prepared by the Housing Review Secretariat; and
Resource Paper - The ACT Government's Housing Program - Current Housing Programs and Arrangements, dated September 1994, which was updated by the Housing Review Secretariat.
STATUS OF WOMEN - COMMONWEALTH-STATE MINISTERS CONFERENCE
AND RECENT DEVELOPMENTS
Ministerial Statement and Papers
MS FOLLETT (Chief Minister and Treasurer), by leave: Madam Speaker, on Friday, 6 October 1994, I attended the Commonwealth-State Ministers Conference on the Status of Women, held in Adelaide. I was particularly pleased to be able to report at this conference on the achievements of the ACT Government, especially as it coincided with celebrations of the centenary of women's suffrage in South Australia. Today, I wish to report on a number of issues raised at the conference which have particular relevance to the ACT and the Government's policies on the status of women. With the launch of the discussion paper, Women and Parliament in Australia and New Zealand, a major focus of the conference was on women's participation in the political arena. This discussion was especially timely, given the historic decisions taken at the recent National Conference of the Australian Labor Party.
The ACT Government is proud of its record in relation to the number of women in government and in decision making positions. As at June 1994, 42.6 per cent of positions on ACT government boards and committees were filled by women. This is the highest representation in Australia and close to our policy objective of equal representation of women and men on all boards and committees. As a body politic, the Territory compares
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