Page 494 - Week 04 - Wednesday, 28 June 1989
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The institute is continually taking steps to refine further the enrolment and examination processes but, as the TAFE operates on a lean budget, to ensure perfect organisation it would have to employ extra administrative staff and reduce teaching staff accordingly.
Drug Laws
MR MOORE: My question is directed to the Minister for Community Services and Health. In relation to the recently disclosed though originally covert introduction of drug laws, alleged to be the toughest in Australia, has the Minister taken account of social and medical consequences, such as the increased involvement of organised crime in the ACT, increased theft as addicts attempt to finance their habits, and greater and more dangerous adulteration of drugs of addiction, all of which may result from making those drugs more difficult to obtain, thus making the trade in them in the ACT more lucrative?
MR BERRY: That is not the sort of question, Mr Speaker, that I would answer without some close consideration. I undertake to report back to the Assembly in due course.
Electricity and Water Rates
DR KINLOCH: Mr Speaker, my question is to the Minister for Housing and Urban Services. In view of recent speculation about rates increases for electricity and water, would the Minister advise whether the Government will give consideration to referring proposed rate increases to the Prices Surveillance Authority?
MRS GRASSBY: I thank you for the question. I will take that on board, and I will get back to you about that.
ACT Cancer Society
MR BERRY: Mr Speaker, I would like to respond to a question which was raised by Mr Moore yesterday in relation to a letter from the ACT Cancer Society, a copy of which I received, and I see that Mr Moore also received a copy. The letter was addressed to the Commissioner for Housing of the ACT Housing Trust.
Firstly, I would like to thank Mr Moore for the question because indeed the ACT Cancer Society is an organisation which should be supported because of the good work that it carries out in the community. But I must add that I am somewhat disappointed that Mr Moore would argue for fairly steep increases in support without first having given consideration to the real situation in relation to the funding of organisations of this sort.
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