Page 704 - Week 05 - Wednesday, 5 July 1989
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MRS NOLAN: I ask a supplementary question. I am aware of that, Minister Grassby, but as the major users of pesticides in the ACT would they not have considerable input into this legislation?
MRS GRASSBY: No My department has looked into this and the problem is that we are out of step with New South Wales and Victoria. We are now bringing the law into step with New South Wales and Victoria. They are not part of the Bill. The Bill is for people who are selling to farmers and to householders. Pesticides are very dangerous when they get into our soil and our water supplies and remain there for many, many years. As we all know, we had difficulty in selling our meat overseas recently because these materials were being used on farms. Farmers were coming into the ACT buying up these pesticides and using them - like dieldrin and DDT - because they believed that they were still very good to use; whereas they were very unsafe and in New South Wales and Victoria were completely banned.
Bruce Stadium
MR JENSEN: My question is directed to the Minister for Industry, Employment and Eduction, and I refer him to his reply to my question on the Bruce Stadium yesterday. Can the Minister provide the date of the letter that he referred to in his reply and, in the interests of open government, as expounded by the Chief Minister yesterday and today and by the Minister today, will he table the letter for the information of the people of the ACT?
MR WHALAN: I do not have the exact date of the letter, but I will find out and will take advice on whether I can table it. I am happy for you to have a look at it and I will take advice on whether it is appropriate to table.
ACT Budget
MR KAINE: I address a question to the Chief Minister. I refer to her statement yesterday in which she said, amongst other things, that "we" - presumably meaning the Government - "have initiated a uniquely open process of budget formulation involving wide consultation with the community". I refer also to a discussion that the Chief Minister and I had some two months ago in which she undertook to involve the Opposition in the preparation of the budget.
Since the Opposition has not heard one word from the Government on the question of the budget up to this point, although we did receive a copy of three-year forward estimates three days after they were released to the
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