Page 304 - Week 03 - Wednesday, 31 May 1989
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MR JENSEN: I ask supplementary question, Mr Speaker. In relation to that question, was one of the principal Hooker negotiators formerly a senior officer of the ACT Administration, and did Hookers originally tender for that particular project?
MR WHALAN: I do not know the answer to that question.
MR JENSEN: Mr Speaker, I presume that if the Minister does not know the answer to the question he will be providing it to us in due course.
MR WHALAN: Mr Speaker, I would have to look at the time frame. This Government has responsibility for a period which dates from the time of the formation of the Government in this chamber. I will get a brief on it and, if it is relevant to the time frame in which we have been in government, then I will answer it appropriately.
DEATH OF BUS DRIVER
MR STEFANIAK: Yesterday I asked the Chief Minister a question in relation to the tragic death of a bus driver who went to the aid of some school children on his bus. I have a further question. Can the Government tell the Assembly what arrangements, if any, are being made to compensate the dependants of that bus driver?
MS FOLLETT: No, I do not have that information with me at the moment. I will take the question on notice and provide the Assembly with a reply.
TOBACCO
MR KAINE: I would like to address a question to the Chief Minister and Treasurer. Chief Minister, your Government, I understand, is committed to establishing a policy on advertising, promotion, sales and pricing of tobacco in the Australian Capital Territory - and I draw attention to that last part "and pricing". Is there an inference that one can draw from that that, despite your election promises, you are contemplating increasing the taxes on tobacco products in the ACT?
MS FOLLETT: Mr Kaine has referred to our election commitment not to increase rates and taxes to individual households and individual citizens as a result of self-government. The question of further arrangements about tobacco franchising and tobacco taxes and so on has been taken up by my colleague the Minister for Health and is a matter on which he will be making a ministerial statement quite soon.
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