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community groups. People with disability are encouraged to get involved by identifying groups, organisations and activities they would like to participate in and to let those organisations and places know how to apply for a disability inclusion grant. I encourage all members who have constituents with disability talking to them about a lack of access to make them aware of the disability inclusion grants program, an ACT Labor election commitment.
Finally, I want to acknowledge the hard work of the Disability Reference Group, which met just yesterday. The DRG, led by its passionate community co-chair, Dougie Herd, provides me and the ACT government with advice on government policies and insights into the issues faced by Canberrans with a disability. I was thrilled to appoint a number of new members to the DRG recently. Alarna Barratt, Michael Bleasdale, Jackson Sievers and Kerry Snell will make the DRG even stronger and further increase its capacity to shape and help deliver a more inclusive Canberra.
Mr Barr: I ask that all further questions be placed on the notice paper.
Supplementary answer to question without notice
Municipal services—cemeteries
MR STEEL: In question time I said that the report associated with the investigation of the missing ashes from the crematorium at Norwood Park would be released tomorrow. It will in fact be released on Friday.
Paper
Madam Speaker presented the following paper:
Inspector of Correctional Services Act, pursuant to subsection 30(2)—Report of a Review of a Critical Incident by the ACT Inspector of Correctional Services—Assault of a detainee at the Alexander Maconochie Centre on 16 December 2018, dated 16 May 2019.
Employment—job security
Debate resumed.
MISS C BURCH (Kurrajong) (3.04): Again today we hear Ms Cody throwing around accusations about the federal government that are simply not true. Ms Cody’s claims that the federal coalition will cut $1.5 billion and thousands of jobs from the federal public service are factually incorrect. The $1 billion in cuts that Ms Cody claims is simply the efficiency dividend not decreasing as quickly as originally estimated.
Ms Cody has also selectively ignored today that it was her federal Labor colleagues who wanted to cut $2.1 billion in funding from the Australian public service had they won the election last month. Let us not forget that it was the last federal Labor government who imposed an additional 1.25 per cent efficiency dividend on top of the existing 2.5 per cent dividend on the public service. The last time the efficiency
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