Page 2643 - Week 12 - Thursday, 16 November 1989
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Could the Minister advise as to the number of trial houses and could I receive a break-up of their individual costs?
MRS GRASSBY: I will have to get back to you.
Public Service Transfers
MR COLLAERY: My question is directed to the Chief Minister. Chief Minister, did your consultations with the Prime Minister include a discussion as to the repatriation of staff back to the Commonwealth? Did you indicate to the Prime Minister in those talks that in the absence of the freeze on the funding being broken you would be transferring staff back to the Commonwealth, and have you yet, as you are obliged under section 71 of the self-government Act, agreed to any matter with the Commonwealth regarding the staffing of the Territory?
MS FOLLETT: Very briefly, the answer is no, we did not discuss those matters.
Hospitals Management
MRS NOLAN: My question is also to the Chief Minister. Is it not the case that legislation has been drafted or is partially drafted to establish a permanent hospital board of management? Can the Chief Minister inform the house of the status of this legislation and why this legislation has not been listed on the forward program which has been circulated by the Chief Minister today?
MS FOLLETT: Mr Speaker, to the best of my knowledge no such legislation has been or is being drafted.
ACT Population Growth
MR DUBY: Mr Speaker, my question is directed to the Minister for Industry, Employment and Education and concerns population growth in the ACT. On 6 October the Minister issued a press statement saying that the ACT was one of the fastest-growing cities in Australia. I was wondering whether he would like to comment on the figures released by the Bureau of Statistics early in November which showed that, in the ACT, population growth is less than for the rest of Australia, and in comparison with previous years, when the population growth was 2.5 per cent, it has now declined to 1.6 per cent per annum.
MR WHALAN: The last time we discussed population growth in the ACT was when I was trying to encourage the preservation of preschools by urging those who had not yet done their
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