Page 1497 - Week 04 - Thursday, 4 April 2019

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The Community Services Directorate has not systemically retained information regarding fee waivers for previous years. It is therefore unable to provide the data for past years.

(6) The Community Services Directorate is pursuing outstanding fees from past Festivals with a small number of organisations. The number for 2016, 2017 and 2018 are listed in the table below.

One organisation has been excluded and that organisation has not sought a waiver for outstanding fees. The Directorate has recently corresponded with this organisation to offer a waiver in order to facilitate future involvement.

In regard to the 2019 Festival, stallholders still have time to pay any outstanding fees.

(7) As noted in question 2, the Festival Organising Team will raise with applicants concerns about application compliance issues or availability.

(8) Applicants can seek a review either with the National Multicultural Festival Director or with the Executive Group Manager, Inclusion and Participation.

(9) The number of stallholders per year were

a) 2016 – reliable data not available;

b) 2017 – I refer to the answer to the Annual and Financial Report Hearings of the Standing Committee on Health, Ageing and Community Services at QTON 26;

c) 2018 – I refer to the answer at QON 1021;

d) 2019 – 278.

It is important to note when reflecting on information provided in past years, that a stallholder can apply for more than one stall space and that total stall numbers are higher than the number of stallholders.

(10) The Community Services Directorate is unable to provide the data for 2016 and 2017 as the data is difficult to locate, unreliable and /or would require an unreasonable diversion of staff resources.

For 2018, I refer to the answer at QON 1021.

For 2019, see the table below:

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