Page 1604 - Week 06 - Thursday, 3 May 1990
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Sports Coordination
MRS NOLAN: Mr Speaker, my question is addressed to the Minister for Housing and Community Services on a matter related to sport. Is he aware that a meeting of representatives of all ACT sports, called by ACT Sport, is to be held at Sports House next Tuesday? Will he be attending that meeting?
MR COLLAERY: I thank Mrs Nolan for the question. Mr Speaker, a meeting of representatives of all ACT sports, called by ACT Sport, is to be held at Sports House on Tuesday, 8 May, at 7.30 pm. I understand that the aim of the meeting is to seek to coordinate all the sporting organisations in the ACT into a unified body to liaise effectively with government, sponsors and the ACT Administration in such areas as sponsorship, funding, promotion and general questions of determining sporting priorities in the ACT. That may help us also with grants applications.
Hopefully this meeting will lead not to the type of destructive rumourmongering that comes from some sectors of this Assembly but to streamlining and improvement in the contact between the sporting community, government and potential sponsors.
I have had informed discussions with Dr Roberts of Sports House and ACT Sport. I am very interested in a number of recommendations and suggestions that he is making about these restructuring proposals - ignored during seven months of Labor government - so that sport can get its right agenda in the ACT. Mr Stefaniak will be attending that meeting and will be reporting to the Alliance Government on the outcomes.
ACT Police Force
MR MOORE: Mr Speaker, my question is directed to the Chief Minister as Treasurer. Mr Kaine, given that the police force costs are estimated at about $42m a year to run and considering that this amount makes such a large dent in the Government coffers, can the Chief Minister advise the Assembly whether options other than contracting the Australian Federal Police from 1 July 1990 have been considered, or is it a foregone conclusion since "final financial arrangements are almost complete" and that the ACT must have - as your Attorney General has described it and I quote from a transcript of the ABC special report last night - "the AFP or the AFP"?
MR KAINE: Let me address, firstly, Mr Speaker, the question of the $42m. That is not going to make any dent in the ACT budget because when the police transfer to our responsibility and our control on 1 July the Commonwealth will transfer at the same time, as an increment to the
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