Page 2591 - Week 09 - Wednesday, 8 August 1990
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MR ACTING SPEAKER: Sit down, members. Mr Duby has the floor.
MR DUBY: I thank Mr Moore for the question. I note the link between certain members of the gallery and the thrust of this question. An examination of preliminary figures from licence applications for July in relation to the X video franchise fee indicates that the original estimate of some $4m may not be achieved this year. The first question that was asked was about the originally anticipated amount. It was in the order of $4m.
At the time the Government was aware of the announcement that revenue estimates could be based only on widely publicised but unsubstantiated information provided by the X-rated video industry to the Commonwealth parliamentary committee on X videos. Because only one month's figures are currently available, at this stage it would be too early to assess the likely extent of the revenue shortfall from the X-rated franchise fee. But I can assure the Assembly that the Commissioner for ACT Revenue is currently auditing the licensees' returns very closely, and I have requested him to keep me informed of the results.
School Closures - Lyons
MR CONNOLLY: My question is directed to the Minister for Health, Education and the Arts. I will not ask about costs; I expect to get an answer. Are primary school children, who may be as young as six years of age, living in the vicinity of Wrest Street, Pillar Place and Dennes Place, Lyons, expected to walk some two and a half kilometres to the Curtin South Primary School, involving the crossing of some nine streets on the way, or are they expected to negotiate their way across six lanes of Hindmarsh Drive to get to Chifley Primary School?
MR HUMPHRIES: Not having an encyclopaedic map of Canberra imprinted on my mind - - -
Ms Follett: He doesn't know.
Mrs Grassby: Surprise! Surprise!
MR HUMPHRIES: I do not know exactly those streets in Lyons to which the member refers. I am sorry. If I ask you where a particular street in Weetangera is, you might not know, either.
Ms Follett: I wouldn't close the school, either.
MR HUMPHRIES: It is irrelevant, Ms Follett.
Mrs Grassby: See, it doesn't matter; people don't matter.
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