Page 632 - Week 03 - Wednesday, 21 March 1990
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over the establishment of the fund. He wrote to sports organisations not very long ago claiming that:
... the funds already available have not been allocated for health promotion purposes and may be lost because of the inaction of the Liberal Residents Rally Coalition Government ... nothing has been done to allocate the funds available -
Mr Berry put a question yesterday in the Assembly which implied that the fund had not been established. Let me say that the fund is established and there is no question of Health Promotion Funds being lost if they are not used. With respect to Mr Berry's claim that nothing has been done to allocate funds, I want to remind the Assembly of the two major events which have already received Health Promotions Funds: the National Health Sprint last Sunday and the 1990 Rock Eisteddfod. They were the fund's first two sponsorships. Both have been publicly announced and launched, and indeed in one case has actually occurred. I fail to understand which of these two events Mr Berry considers is not health promotion. They are the only disbursements from the fund at this stage, yet Mr Berry claims that the funds available have not been used for health promotion. The National Health Sprint is a race previously sponsored by a tobacco company. Tobacco sponsorship replacement such as this has always been a key object of the fund, and of course the same applies to the 1990 Rock Eisteddfod.
I must say that I would have hoped that we could have developed a bipartisan and cooperative approach on this particular issue. It disappoints me that we have not got that but I do hope that Mr Berry will reconsider the destructive approach he has taken and will stop acting in league with the tobacco companies to put a hold on this particular vote.
Executive Deputies - Roles
MR WHALAN: Mr Speaker, I would like to ask a question of Trevor Kaine. Mr Kaine, on 14 December you presented a document to the Assembly outlining the guidelines for the relationship between Ministers and Executive Deputies. In that document you said that Executive Deputies would represent Ministers at ministerial councils, and I quote, "when Ministers are unavailable". You have since then made three separate modifications to this policy: Firstly, by saying that an Executive Deputy could attend in place of a departmental adviser; secondly, by saying that an Executive Deputy could attend in addition to a departmental adviser as an expert adviser; and thirdly, by saying that the guidelines were only indicative anyway.
In view of the fact that Mrs Nolan will be attending the Australian Transport Advisory Council in Perth in addition
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