Page 1629 - Week 08 - Thursday, 28 September 1989
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Bushfire Council
MRS NOLAN: My question is to Mrs Grassby as Minister for Housing and Urban Services. Is it correct, Mrs Grassby, that in order to make changes to the composition of the membership of the Bushfire Council you have written to only some groups previously represented on the council seeking their nomination for council positions - in other words, you are proposing to reduce the composition of the council from eleven to seven? Was this done without discussion or consultation with the present council or chairman in relation to the proposed changes, and were there discussions or consultation with community groups about the proposed changes?
MRS GRASSBY: That is true; the council is to be reduced. People from New South Wales will be taken off the council. It is now the ACT. We do not have New South Wales people on the Bushfire Council. The police will be taken off because of the situation in regard to the emergency services. There will be a council - I cannot remember exactly the set-up - of the bushfire brigade; the TLC; rural leaseholders; and two people from the volunteers, one from the north and one from the south. I cannot quite remember the lot, but I can get Mrs Nolan a list. It will be reduced. People from New South Wales will be taken from the council, also people like the police and the emergency services. We do not see any reason for them to be there.
MRS NOLAN: I ask a supplementary question. I asked about the exact number on that council. Has it been reduced from eleven to seven?
MRS GRASSBY: That is what I said; it has been. That is correct.
Bushfire Council
MR STEFANIAK: My question is also to the Minister for Housing and Urban Services in relation to the council she has just been talking about. I would like to know why the police representative and the emergency services were taken off the council?
MRS GRASSBY: Because we see no good reason why they should be on there.
Transitional Funding Trust Account
MR DUBY: My question is addressed to the Chief Minister in her role as Treasurer. I refer to the ACT transitional funding trust account, which supposedly has some money held in it by the Commonwealth on our behalf. In the initial budget statement that was presented to this house by the
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