Page 2407 - Week 11 - Thursday, 2 November 1989
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detail available to me, but I am happy to have a calculation made and will make it available to the Assembly as soon as I can.
Sporting Program Grants
MRS NOLAN: My question is directed to the Minister for Industry, Employment and Education as Minister for sport. What is the Government doing in regard to the CDF for sporting program grants? What, if any, changes are to be introduced or are being contemplated? When does it expect to publicly announce the results of its determination?
MR WHALAN: I thank Mrs Nolan for the question. The allocation of funds from the community development fund as they relate to sport is the subject of recommendations to the Government by an advisory committee which is chaired by Dr Alan Roberts from the University of Canberra. We are very fortunate in Canberra in having serving on his committee a range of persons who have expertise in the sporting area but who are sufficiently objective in their assessment of the applications to ensure that there is an equitable distribution within sport of the inevitably limited funds which are available under the CDF scheme.
No timetable has yet been set for the announcement of successful applicants, but I would like to reassure the Assembly about my total confidence in the objectivity and impartiality of the committee which makes recommendations, which I expect would be varied by the Government only under the most extraordinary circumstances.
University of Canberra
MR HUMPHRIES: My question is addressed to the Minister for Industry, Employment and Education. I refer to the legislation currently before Federal Parliament to create what he, perhaps somewhat prematurely, calls the University of Canberra. I also refer to the report of the Select Committee on Tertiary Amalgamation which handed down its report in July and which in part recommended that the ACT Government immediately prepare appropriate legislation to establish the Canberra College of Advanced Education as a university. I ask the Minister: were drafting instructions ever prepared for that to occur? Secondly, has the Government discussed with the Federal Government the creation of the university under ACT law?
MR WHALAN: In relation to the first point, I can say that the answer is no, there were no drafting instructions issued to our parliamentary draftspeople to prepare legislation along those lines. I think it is worth commenting upon that. I think it is clear that the legislative power at this point of time in relation to the
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