Page 2379 - Week 08 - Tuesday, 12 August 2014
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From 1 July 2014 the Community Services Directorate has introduced a new relationship management approach based on the principle of a single relationship manager for each community sector organisation, regardless of how many individual contracts the directorate has with an organisation. This will significantly simplify the relationship between government and the community sector, and is a measure many non-government organisations called for and have now welcomed.
Of course, reducing red tape is not the only area that the government has been working on. Since commencing the sector development program we have in 2013 and 2014 delivered 23 governance and financial management initiative consulting packages of $20,000 each. In conjunction with the NDIS task force we extended the initiative to make it available to up to 40 more organisations preparing for implementation of the national disability insurance scheme in the ACT.
Future elements of the sector development program will assist the community sector to deal with a complex and rapidly changing environment, and I commend these measures to the Assembly.
MS LAWDER (Brindabella) (8.20): I briefly wanted to say that I am not sure whether I should be amused, complimented or perhaps titillated by Ms Burch’s characterisation of me as a salacious user of some information. The dictionary actually defines salacious as “having or conveying undue or indecent interest in sexual matters”. I am not quite sure what part of what I said about child protection services may indicate some kind of sexual interest. I am prepared to accept that perhaps rather than Ms Burch wilfully, deliberately or perhaps simply ignorantly using the word it is due to a long day at the office. She might like to withdraw her use of the term “salacious”.
Ms Burch: Madam Speaker, if I used the wrong word, I withdraw. But the intent around your narrative of linking 20 per cent—
Ms Lawder: Point of order.
MADAM SPEAKER: No. If you withdraw, Minister Burch, you withdraw. If you want to speak to the item you address the chair.
Proposed expenditure agreed to.
Cultural Facilities Corporation—
Schedule 1, Part 1.8—$300,000 (net cost of outputs), totalling $300,000.
Schedule 1A, Part 1.9—$7,945,000 (net cost of outputs), $2,181,000 (capital injection), totalling $10,126,000.
MR SMYTH (Brindabella) (8.21): Madam Speaker, it is a pleasure to speak to the Cultural Facilities Corporation line this evening because of the good work that they do in the community. I would like to refer to the transcript when we had the CEO, Ms Elvin, before us on one of the few days when there was a member of the public sitting in the audience in estimates, Mr John Hindmarsh. I said:
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