Page 1050 - Week 06 - Thursday, 27 July 1989
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will is there on ADFA's side, but this will be a two-way process, involving the ANU and the new university as well.
Finally, the committee regrets that we were not able, partly through constraints of time and resources, to carry out a wider investigation, especially of all the extensive educational links between local and national institutions. One thinks of the roles of the National Library, the National Gallery, the National Science and Technology Centre, the National Film and Sound Archive, the Australian Federal Police Academy, for example, but one could think of many others, such as St Mark's Institute of Theology, Signadou and so forth. That will remain for another future committee. We lay down our work, hoping that what we have suggested will be achieved without delay. And now may I quote in conclusion from the preface to the report:
We hope that the outcome of these enquiries will be far more than settling some temporary problems of organisation and structure. We urge all the institutions concerned to see new beginnings and challenges, to reject old and often outdated assumptions -
and I personally would want to address that remark to the Australian National University -
and to build on the reputation of our national city as the very heart of research, scholarship, education and training in Australia.
MR WOOD (11.43): Mr Speaker, Dr Kinloch has outlined in summary the conclusions and recommendations of the report. I want to say, among other things, that I have valued the debate that has occurred in the last couple of months and the opportunity I have had to expand my education in and around these educational institutions. We now look to the outcome of this report, we look to the future of the institutions; but let us accept the reality of it: this report alone cannot initiate action.
The institutions and the community now look to the ACT Government as it has expressed its attitude, and most critically to the Commonwealth Minister for Education, John Dawkins. I have no doubt that there will be continuing discussions between the ACT Government and Mr Dawkins and the institutions concerned as we work to a resolution of these problems.
There is still a great deal to be done - I hope that it is done very quickly - before we reach the resolution that is in the best interests of all those institutions. Mr Speaker, I have differed from my colleagues in two important points. I prefer an amalgamation now. I will explain that shortly. I would also prefer that the Institute of the Arts be amalgamated with the Canberra College of Advanced Education or the new institution that it becomes.
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