Page 1155 - Week 04 - Tuesday, 2 April 2019
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Questions without notice
Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders—Ngunnawal Bush Healing Farm
MR COE: I have a question for the Minister for Health and Wellbeing. The question is: why has the ACT government disbanded the board for the Ngunnawal Bush Healing Farm?
MS FITZHARRIS: I thank Mr Coe for the question. The government has not disbanded the board. There is an advisory group. I understand that the advisory group is currently determining when it should next meet but, prior to that, there will be quite an extensive working group meeting with some key stakeholders involved in the Ngunnawal Bush Healing Farm which will take place and which I will attend in just a few weeks time.
MR COE: Minister, when will the Ngunnawal Bush Healing Farm hold its next training course and will the bush healing farm be holding any training courses in 2019?
MS FITZHARRIS: There is currently a course underway. It commenced yesterday. It has 11 clients. This course will run from 1 April for 3 months until June.
MR MILLIGAN: Minister, when will you make the Indigenous bush healing farm do what it was originally intended to do?
MS FITZHARRIS: As I indicated in my first answer, there is a very important group to meet in just a few weeks to discuss a variety of issues about making sure that the Ngunnawal Healing Bush Farm can deliver for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in our community. There is a very clear shared vision that we want the Ngunnawal Bush Healing Farm to be the best that it can be.
That working group will bring together a number of key stakeholders across the ACT in discussing this very matter, including the important healing framework, which will also serve to underpin operations not only at the farm but also in respect of other approaches to Aboriginal health.
Building—aluminium cladding
MS LE COUTEUR: My question is to the Minister for Building Quality Improvement and relates to the government’s review of buildings with flammable aluminium cladding. Minister, can you let us know where the review is up to, when it will be completed and whether we have any idea at this stage how many buildings have been affected?
MR RAMSAY: I thank Ms Le Couteur for the question. It is an important area. The ACT government formed the interagency building cladding review group. That process was, as Ms Le Couteur is aware, to determine whether combustible cladding materials have been used in any territory buildings in a way that does not comply with ACT building standards or that poses an unacceptable risk to building occupants. It is
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