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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 5 Hansard (13 May) . . Page.. 1352 ..

MRS CARNELL (continuing):

Mr Speaker, as a government, we believe strongly that sister city relationships have to come from the ground up. They have to be supported by the community first. They have to have a ground swell of community support to support the infrastructure of a sister city relationship. Certainly, as a government, we are very interested in fostering relationships between ACT business, cultural and educational facilities and other cities in our region. We are very happy to follow up on those sorts of approaches, whether it be from Yogyakarta, Korea or, for that matter other cities or countries, but we are certainly not in the business of entering into secret twinning arrangements.

Question resolved in the affirmative.

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