Page 1805 - Week 09 - Wednesday, 18 October 1989
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MRS NOLAN: The second part of my question was: are people still expected to pay for a 12-month ambulance cover even though those who have private health fund cover require cover only through to 1 January?
MR BERRY: Nobody will be expected to pay double for ambulance cover.
Mrs Nolan: I am sorry, but I would like some clarification, Mr Speaker.
MR SPEAKER: Do you wish to ask a supplementary question, Mrs Nolan?
MRS NOLAN: Yes, please. So, as of now, people are still expected to pay for 12 months cover?
MR BERRY: If you want to maintain your ambulance cover, you will be required to keep your payments up to date, but nobody will be required to pay twice.
Casino
MR COLLAERY: My question is directed to the Attorney-General. I refer to a report in the Canberra Times of 18 October 1989. Is the casino surveillance authority to be involved in assessing the final list of interested companies before or after this list is forwarded to the Minister and Cabinet? Secondly, have the members of the casino surveillance authority been appointed? If so, who are they? If not, when will they be appointed? What consultative procedures will be used to select those members, excluding the statutory requirement for the chairperson? Will the Chief Minister assure the Assembly that the casino surveillance authority will have sufficient resources, particularly time, to undertake the investigations it is required to conduct?
MS FOLLETT: I thank Mr Collaery for the question, which is rather long and detailed. I hope I do not miss any aspects of it. To take the last part of it first, the casino control authority has not been appointed, and that is something that the Government has not yet considered. I am aware that there has been some recent media speculation about the parties interested in the possible casino project. Members, I think, should know that the Government has taken the position that we do not wish to be made aware of the numbers or the names of participants in the selection process until such time as there is a short list of finalists. That short list will be presented to the Government for its consideration. So the short list would already have been approved by an independent expert assessment panel relating to design and finance and would have been cleared by the casino surveillance authority in accordance with the criteria under the Casino Control Act.
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