Page 1718 - Week 09 - Tuesday, 17 October 1989
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MR SPEAKER: Order! Mr Kaine, if you would like to ask a supplementary question you will have the opportunity to do so.
Mr Kaine: I think my point was well made, Mr Speaker. The Chief Minister misled the house.
MR SPEAKER: Order, Mr Kaine!
MS FOLLETT: Do you want to hear him first?
MR SPEAKER: Chief Minister, have you finished?
MS FOLLETT: No, I have not.
MR SPEAKER: Please proceed.
MS FOLLETT: I find there is no inconsistency, Mr Speaker. The meeting was organised and paid for by the Labor Party. It was attended by members of the Labor Government to put forward government policies as a government and to hear the concerns expressed by the community. I deny that I have misled this Assembly, and I resent that implication.
MR KAINE: I wish to ask a supplementary question, Mr Speaker. How, then, can the Chief Minister claim in her press release that this was her Government's first community consultative meeting - not the Labor Party's community consultative meeting, but her Government's community consultative meeting, of which there are going to be some more? Are we going to have more media releases in the future claiming that Labor Party consultative processes are her Government's consultative processes? Are they one and the same?
MS FOLLETT: I repeat that the meeting was organised and paid for by my party, that it was a consultation with the Labor Government. Future such consultative meetings will be organised in much the same way because I do not think it is appropriate for the ACT public to bear the cost of those meetings.
Childers Street Theatre
DR KINLOCH: My question is directed to the Chief Minister in her role as Minister for the arts. This also relates to a media release, one I much enjoyed. It is noted in a letter of 13 October from Ross Cook, manager of the ACT Arts Bureau, that the Childers Street Theatre was recently handed back, as the release says, to the ACT Administration by the ANU. I make no comment on that; that sounds very interesting indeed. What I would welcome is some background to that decision in preparation for the meeting on Thursday at noon. Alas, we are sitting, or perhaps we will be finished by noon. Could we have some background to that decision in preparation for that meeting?
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