Page 5317 - Week 14 - Thursday, 19 November 2009
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It is around if they have commercial enterprises. Whether they are having cultural enterprises is a decision for them to make.
MRS DUNNE: Supplementary question, Mr Speaker.
MR SPEAKER: Yes, Mrs Dunne.
MRS DUNNE: Minister, can you tell the Assembly what indexation you used to calculate the increase in fees for the 2010 Multicultural Festival?
MS BURCH: The fees that are applying this year have been discussed with the community. There is a participation policy that outlines the stall structures, whether they are a commercial enterprise. As outlined on the festival website, the three-by-three-metre stalls providing information only do not incur a charge. Applicants wishing to seek a waiver because they are providing a cultural activity and information only can put that in writing. Commercial enterprises—
Mr Hanson: Mr Speaker—
MR SPEAKER: Order, Ms Burch! Stop the clock.
Mr Hanson: I raise a point of order on relevance. The question was specific. It was about the indexation. If she does not know then she should come back and let us know later. She can table it later. If she does not know, stop this waffle. It is a point of order on relevance.
Mr Stanhope interjecting—
Mr Smyth interjecting—
Mr Hanson interjecting—
MR SPEAKER: Order! Gentlemen, don’t make me warn you today. Ms Burch—
MS BURCH: I believe I have answered the question.
National Multicultural Festival
MR COE: My question is to the Minister for Multicultural Affairs. Minister, last week in question time you said in answer to a question on the reduced Multicultural Festival in 2010:
There is a smaller budget, a budget that will be managed within budget and delivered within budget this year.
Minister, given the massive cost blowouts of previous multicultural festivals, what makes you so sure that you can manage and deliver the festival within budget when your predecessor could not?
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