Page 4207 - Week 12 - Wednesday, 23 October 2019
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the right aptitude for that work, supporting some of the most complex young people in our community, but also that they are well trained. We cannot rush the process of recruitment. It is very important that the staff who are coming into Bimberi undertake their six-week, I think it is, training program and then the buddy shifts that enable them to work safely with young people as fully fledged youth workers within the Bimberi Youth Justice Centre. We are always cognisant of the need to ensure that staffing levels are appropriate, but we are also cognisant of the need to ensure that staff are appropriately trained and supported in those roles.
Visitors
MADAM SPEAKER: I recognise a group of young women who have been participating in the Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians program this morning. We have representatives of Gungahlin College, St Francis Xavier College, Erindale College, Lake Tuggeranong College, St John Paul II College, Canberra Girls Grammar, Brindabella Christian College and Narrabundah College. Welcome to your Assembly.
Questions without notice
City Renewal Authority
MS LE COUTEUR: My question is to the Chief Minister and relates to the City Renewal Authority’s shared waste enclosures behind the Sydney and Melbourne buildings—or in the middle of them, maybe. Chief Minister, why are these enclosures still not open for businesses to use many months after they were built?
MR BARR: I thank Ms Le Couteur for the question. As I understand it, the issue relates to contractual arrangements with waste collectors and to some tenants within the Sydney and Melbourne buildings not yet signing on to the new arrangements. Obviously, the facilities have been built, and there is a degree of support across both tenants and landlords within those two buildings.
Anything in relation to the Sydney and Melbourne buildings is difficult, given that there are 102 separate property owners and three different body corporates, effectively, to negotiate with. The City Renewal Authority continues to engage with those who remain outside the proposed arrangements, and I understand that there is optimism that this will be resolved reasonably quickly, Ms Le Couteur.
MS LE COUTEUR: Will enclosures like this be built in other laneways around the CBD and around Canberra?
MR BARR: I think there is merit in the concept obviously, and these would be the two most challenging laneways in all Canberra, I would imagine, given the nature of the ownership structure for the Sydney and Melbourne buildings. Clearly these are buildings of great significance to our city, and many Canberrans are very interested in the announcements that the government has made recently about future legislative intentions that we have to ensure that these historic Canberra buildings are better maintained.
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