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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 11 Hansard (4 November) . . Page.. 3546 ..
Mrs Carnell: Not some of them.
MR STEFANIAK: Certainly not some of the rugby people, Chief Minister, myself included. Some 1,700 volunteers worked on some aspect or other of the games, either within their particular sports or in the general games administration. These absolutely outstanding local people worked as registrars, meeters, greeters, couriers, guides, operation officers, marshals, games journalists, tea and coffee makers, team managers, clothes washers, scorers, runners, liaison officers and in a million and one other capacities. All of the expertise and the practical experience gained by these volunteers will now be able to be transferred to the many community-based organisations to which nearly all of them have ties. They did a particularly good job. I am proud, Mr Speaker, to commend to this Assembly the work of all the volunteers.
I can also advise the Assembly that we have now been successful in gaining a new multidisciplined competition; this time for athletes in the age groups from under 20 through to under 40. That will be hosted here in 1998, 2000 and 2002. The Masters Games and the new competition, I think, are very practical examples of our very real commitment to the Territory. I would hope there could be bipartisan support - I cannot see any reason why there would not be - for the recently announced active Australia program.
I think Canberra really can be proud of its achievements over the past two weeks, and I am sure all members of this Assembly will join me in thanking the members and staff of the games company, especially the general manager and the chair of the board, Sue Baker-Finch, Keith Bradley, the board members and, as I have said before, the volunteers for putting on what was a truly outstanding and most memorable event.
Mrs Carnell: I ask that all further questions be placed on the notice paper.
MR STEFANIAK: Mr Speaker, Ms Reilly asked me a question in relation to housing policies in relation to allocations. I have here some material which I indicated I would obtain. I table that material.
MR HUMPHRIES (Attorney-General and Minister for the Environment, Land and Planning): Mr Speaker, on 4 September I informed the Assembly, during the course of the debate on the matter of public importance that day, that the ACT's greenhouse gas emissions were "something like 0.29 per cent of Australian greenhouse gas emissions, and that includes emissions caused by our consumption of power produced outside our borders". I have since received information that the figure of 0.29 per cent does not include emissions caused by the consumption of power produced outside our borders. However, the ACT's emissions are still well under one per cent of the total for Australia.
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