Page 2915 - Week 13 - Thursday, 23 November 1989
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keen to get community views. It does involve some difficult decisions. The strategy must be discussed and, if necessary, modified to take account of total community requirements and benefits. I commend the strategy to the Assembly.
Debate adjourned.
Sitting suspended from 12.34 to 2.30 pm
MR BERRY (Minister for Community Services and Health), by leave: I would like to offer a welcome from the Assembly to three students, a coordinator and a teacher from Barnado's Kaleen cottage, who are in the gallery today.
Members: Hear, hear!
DR KINLOCH: Mr Speaker, may I, as a former Barnado's boy, especially welcome them.
QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE
Grass Mowing
MR STEVENSON: My question is addressed to the Chief Minister. Is it correct that grass has grown in many areas of the city so as to become a fire hazard? Can the Chief Minister please tell me who is responsible for high grass on Nos. 5, 7 and 9 Wild Street, Narrabundah?
Mr Duby: God.
MR STEVENSON: I am advised that it is posing a fire hazard to the premises of Mr Rowan of 40 Walker Crescent, Narrabundah. Can the Chief Minister please explain why Mr Rowan has been unable to find out from five different departments of the ACT Administration who is responsible for controlling the alleged fire hazard on these blocks of land?
MS FOLLETT: I thank Mr Stevenson for the question. I would like to say that Mr Duby was absolutely correct. I think we have heard, on many occasions, my colleague Mrs Grassby speaking about the question of grass in various areas in the ACT, and she has alluded on numerous occasions to the particular weather conditions that have given rise to the grass. If your constituent is seriously concerned about the grass in that area being a fire hazard, he should report it to the fire brigade. I would suggest that you take the matter up with Mrs Grassby's office as soon as possible.
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