Page 1178 - Week 05 - Tuesday, 24 April 1990
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MR KAINE: Well, I do not know what speech you are talking about, Leader of the Opposition.
Ms Follett: You were there.
MR KAINE: He has not made such a statement to me. He has not made a report of any kind implying that to me. I am completely mystified to know where he said it. If you say that he did, I accept your word for that. I do not doubt your integrity, Leader of the Opposition. I am not aware of the statement. I do not know whether he did say it or where he said it. I do not know on what basis he said it but if, as you say, the school is fully occupied, then it would be very difficult to substantiate. I would like to know precisely what he said and the context in which he said it before I make any other comment on the statement.
Community Development Fund
MR WOOD: Mr Speaker, I direct a question to the Chief Minister. He and I have worked together in the consultative process of distributing the community development funds to a wide range of community groups. Does the Chief Minister recognise the importance that community groups place on the separation of the community development fund from consolidated revenue and their preference for the consultative arm's length funding process? Will he respect these pretty well universal views and will he consult with the community groups about the future of the CDF?
MR KAINE: Mr Speaker, I have to assume that Mr Wood's question is based on a Treasury document that mysteriously found its way into the hands of the media and other people last week. It was actually a discussion paper on the future of the community development fund.
Mr Berry: You mean a Cabinet submission.
MR KAINE: That paper has not yet come to the Executive. Like lots of papers that the members of the Opposition and the media seem to get these days, they are papers that have been processed within the ACT Administration, and this is yet another one which has not yet come to the Executive. The Executive has no view yet on what the future of the community development fund ought to be. I think it is of great interest, however, that the Opposition when in government proposed the abolition of the CDF but for some reason they had second thoughts. I do not know what their second thoughts were based on, but the Leader of the Opposition might like to bring me up to date on what arguments she found persuasive in retaining the community development fund.
I know that there is a strong feeling in some sectors of the community that the CDF is an important mechanism. I
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