Page 2595 - Week 09 - Wednesday, 8 August 1990
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MR BERRY: At the same time you were planning to demolish schools.
MR HUMPHRIES: What is the question?
Ms Follett: Did you know about the surplus?
MR BERRY: Did you know about the surplus when you planned to demolish the schools?
MR HUMPHRIES: I know Mr Berry is misquoting or misinterpreting the Chief Minister.
Mr Berry: On a point of order; I have to say that my question is not related to my answer to the interjection by the Chief Minister. My question is in relation to - - -
MR TEMPORARY DEPUTY SPEAKER: Just get to your point of order, Mr Berry, please.
Mr Berry: My question was: were you aware that the Chief Minister was proposing a budget surplus at the same time as you were planning to demolish schools?
MR HUMPHRIES: I answer once again that Mr Berry is misinterpreting the Chief Minister. I refute the suggestion that Mr Kaine, the Treasurer, has said at any stage that he plans a budget surplus for this year. It may be the result of his fine financial management that it occurs. To my knowledge, there has been no announcement that that is to be the case. When it happens I will answer what to this point has been an entirely hypothetical question.
AIDS - Hospitality Industry
MR STEFANIAK: My question is addressed to the Minister for Health, Education and the Arts. Why does his department need to provide advice to the hospitality industry in relation to AIDS when there is no risk of transmission of the virus through safe work practices?
MR HUMPHRIES: I thank Mr Stefaniak for his question which comes in the context of the conference that is presently under way in Canberra on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific, which I attended for a while on Sunday. At previous national conferences on AIDS there has been concern among workers in the hospitality industry about transmission of the virus through work contact. This resulted in unnecessary discrimination towards conference delegates in previous years. In order to prevent similar occurrences, a strategy has been developed in conjunction with the Commonwealth Department of Community Services and Health as a conference organiser.
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