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across Australia. The Alliance Government has included compulsory helmet legislation in its legislation program and would, if that national standard was agreed, implement moves to implement such action in the ACT.
ACT Government Employees
MR WHALAN: Mr Speaker, I would like to ask a question of Trevor Kaine. This is a question that follows on from the question that Bill Wood asked about the rights of employees participating in democratic social and political debate within the ACT. Is the Chief Minister, the person responsible for the administration of the public service, aware that yesterday evening an officer employed in the schools system, having previously agreed to participate in a discussion about the requirements of schools for a pool in Tuggeranong, was directed not to participate in a public meeting at the Tuggeranong College?
MR KAINE: No, Mr Speaker, I was not aware of any such event.
MR WHALAN: In view of the circumstances which have now been brought to the notice of the Chief Minister, will he undertake to inquire into the matter and to report back to the Assembly?
MR KAINE: I will undertake to inquire into the matter, Mr Speaker.
Hospital Planning
MR BERRY: My question is directed to the Chief Minister, Mr Kaine, in his capacity as Minister for Planning. Could Mr Kaine advise this Assembly of the cost of his plan - and I refer to the plan that was published in the Canberra Times - to create a 1,000-bed hospital in the ACT?
MR KAINE: Mr Speaker, I would have thought that Mr Berry might have addressed his question to the Minister for Health whose responsibility it is, but - - -
Mr Berry: It was your plan.
MR KAINE: Mr Speaker, it is not my plan. The Opposition member does not seem to understand that we have portfolios in our Government, just as he had in his, and health happens to fall to Mr Humphries. If there is a plan for developing the hospitals, it will fall in Mr Humphries' area of responsibility.
If we go back a little bit, the 1,000-bed hospital concept was put forward by a consultant to the Commonwealth Government through the Minister for Territories, Mr
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