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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 1 Hansard (20 February) . . Page.. 232 ..

MS HORODNY: Mr Speaker, my question is also directed to the Minister for Urban Services, Mr Kaine. I have received a number of calls from constituents who have recently received their car registration renewal notices and found that the notices have included a brochure recommending that they go to Ultra Tune to get their car serviced. These constituents recognise that the Government is very hard up for money and needs to find more revenue-raising measures, but they are quite concerned that the Government seems to be turning itself into an advertising agency. Could you tell us, therefore, what deal the Government has made with Ultra Tune in terms of how much Ultra Tune is paying the Government for this advertising opportunity and why Ultra Tune got this deal ahead of other companies who may also have wished to be given the opportunity to advertise their products with government notices? Does this mean we can expect to receive ads for real estate agents with our rates notices?

MR KAINE: Mr Speaker, I was unaware until now that such brochures were being included with the renewal notices. I do not know what process was followed in order to have those brochures included, but I will take the question on notice and find out what the process was and whether indeed the revenues of the Territory are benefiting from this. I will come back with a comprehensive answer when I have it available.

MR SPEAKER: Do you have a supplementary question?

MS HORODNY: Can I add a supplementary question. Could you also find out what guidelines, ethical or otherwise, the Government uses to determine advertising or corporate sponsorship of any sort?

MR KAINE: Yes, I will.

Mrs Carnell: I ask that all further questions be placed on the notice paper.

MR KAINE: Mr Speaker, I have answers to a couple of questions put to me earlier in the week. The first one was from Ms Horodny, in which she outlined the history of the Transport Reform Advisory Committee and then asked me whether that committee was in fact defunct or whether we intended to replace it. The facts, as Ms Horodny outlined them in terms of the history of the old Transport Reform Advisory Committee, were generally correct. That committee was established in August 1995. It considered a range of matters on which the Minister needed advice. In September 1996 it was concluded that the committee was really no longer required and it was disbanded, along with the Taxi Industry Advisory Committee.

However, I think that the second part of Ms Horodny's question put the proposition that the Government did not intend to replace it. That is not correct. In fact, there has been a decision by the Government that those two committees will be replaced by a Transport Advisory Group, which will be a forum to resolve differences of opinion between various

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