Page 608 - Week 05 - Tuesday, 4 July 1989
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Gas and Electricity Rates
MR DUBY: My question is addressed to the Minister for Housing and Urban Services. I note in an article in today's Canberra Times, on the front page, referring to the cost of natural gas there is a statement:
...lower gas prices would represent a further challenge to ACTEW, which is expected to announce shortly an increased tariff for 1989-90. The authority has, however, not yet notified the Minister for Urban Services, Ellnor Grassby, of its proposed increase.
My question is: Is the Minister the person responsible for these matters or is it, if she will pardon the analogy, a case of the tail wagging the dog?
MRS GRASSBY: No, ACTEW has not, at this stage, looked at that. That will be coming to me as part of our budget talks in the next couple of weeks. As the Deputy Chief Minister is responsible for natural gas, when I have that information it will possibly be announced at the same time.
Bruce Stadium
MR JENSEN: Mr Speaker, my question without notice is directed to the Minister for Industry, Employment and Education. Is it correct that the Bruce Stadium has been formally passed into the care of the ACT rate and tax payers? If this is correct, can the Minister provide the details of the date when this transfer took place?
MR WHALAN: No, there has not been a formal handover of the Bruce Stadium by the Commonwealth, or the Australian Institute of Sport, so I cannot answer the other parts of the question.
MR JENSEN: I wish to ask a supplementary question. In that case, is it proposed that work should commence on Bruce Stadium before that changeover takes place?
MR WHALAN: Mr Speaker, the construction work in relation to Bruce Stadium will proceed on the basis of a letter of intent which has been received on this matter. While there has been no formal handover in the form of a formal legal document, a letter of intent has been received from the Commonwealth. It is on the basis of it that I think work would proceed.
ACT Economy
MR WOOD: Mr Speaker, I direct a question to the Minister for Industry, Employment and Education. I pose it against
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