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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2003 Week 1 Hansard (18 February) . . Page.. 75 ..

MS TUCKER (continuing):

We mentioned the question of how many indigenous Australians, or people from culturally or linguistically-diverse backgrounds and people with disabilities, are employed in the ACT public service. That is an important issue on which we want to see the government being proactive.

The question was raised by the committee of the General Agreement on Trade and Services, and whether the government was undertaking its own analysis of the potential for that impacting on governance in the ACT in any way. We have mentioned that the Public Accounts Committee will be looking at that in the future anyway, but the committee made a note that it is something the government could look at.

Note was made by the committee of the Canberra Business Advisory Service and its relationship to sustainability. The committee asked whether the contracts produced when assisting small businesses, or businesses generally, have to take sustainability issues into account in their businesses. That is another way of trying to ensure that the whole notion of sustainability is integrated across all areas of government.

We made comment on the time it took for some answers to come back for questions raised during the process of the committee's investigation of the annual reports. There may be issues about whether it is clear that we are asking a question on notice-so the committee can take some responsibility for that. However, there were some fairly important questions raised to which we do not have answers, and we will be pursuing those.

Question resolved in the affirmative.

Legal Affairs-Standing Committee

Report No 5

MR STEFANIAK (11.54): Mr Speaker, pursuant to order, I present Report No 5 of the Standing Committee on Legal Affairs entitled Report on Annual and Financial Reports 2001-2002, together with extracts of the relevant minutes of proceedings. I seek leave to move a motion authorising the report for publication.

Leave granted.

MR STEFANIAK: I move:

Question resolved in the affirmative.

MR STEFANIAK: I move:

Firstly, I would like to thank the other members of the committee-Mr Hargreaves and Ms Tucker-for their diligence in this matter, and that of our committee secretary, Derek Abbott.

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