Page 1950 - Week 06 - Wednesday, 7 June 2017
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during the most recent 2016-17 bushfire season, when both ACT fire services worked together collaboratively and cohesively. The community can be assured that the current model for the provision of emergency services in the ACT is serving us well. It ensures a seamless response across agencies and across services to any emergency incidents faced by the people of the ACT.
Once again, I look forward to expanding on this when I report back to the Assembly in August.
Amendment agreed to.
Original question, as amended, resolved in the affirmative.
Ngunnawal bush healing farm
MR MILLIGAN (Yerrabi) (10.40): I move:
That this Assembly:
(1) notes:
(a) the Government has spent more than $12 million on a facility known as the Ngunnawal Bush Healing Farm (the facility);
(b) that there has been a significant lack of progress in establishing and opening the facility since it was first mooted in 2007;
(c) the Government has to date spent significant monies on developing four different models of care to be delivered at the facility but there is still no agreed model of care;
(d) that successive ACT Labor Governments have failed to keep the community informed about the nature of the rehabilitation services to be offered at the facility; and
(e) that this ACT Government wrongly attributed confusion over the nature of the facility to the ACT’s indigenous community, when the confusion lay within the Health Directorate; and
(2) calls on the ACT Labor Government to:
(a) accept responsibility for its own confusion and purveying of inconsistent information over the purpose for which the facility was built;
(b) apologise to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community for causing the confusion;
(c) by close of Assembly business on Thursday, 8 June 2017, table a copy of the crown lease and the detailed chronology of any changes to the lease purpose clause which cover the facility;
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