Page 3037 - Week 11 - Tuesday, 11 September 1990
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officers to date. My department is also participating in overseas recruitment activities. An aggressive advertising campaign across Australia for 1991 resident medical staff has just been completed. Additional advertisements have been placed, including some in New Zealand journals, and late applications are being actively encouraged.
My department has also conducted a review of interim and resident medical staff duties at both Royal Canberra and Woden Valley hospitals. This review has successfully identified areas where efficiency improvements can be made and pressure on junior medical staff alleviated. Junior medical staff salaries in the ACT are on parity with those in New South Wales. In addition, staff are offered attractive rental subsidies and an expanded education program.
My department will closely monitor the situation throughout the remainder of this year and next year, and I am confident that, with these preventative measures in place, the ACT will be minimally affected by the shortfall in medical graduates from New South Wales.
Commissioner for Housing Loans
MR CONNOLLY: My question is to the Chief Minister. Chief Minister, did the Minister for Finance and Urban Services, Mr Duby, disclose to the Cabinet that he and Ms Maher stood to lose if a departmental recommendation, to increase interest rates for high income households who have post-1986 Commissioner for Housing loans, was agreed to by the Cabinet? If this was disclosed to the Cabinet, why was Mr Duby permitted to remain in Cabinet and vote on a matter in which he had such a direct financial interest?
MR KAINE: Mr Connolly is well aware, or he should be aware, of the convention of Cabinet confidentiality, and I do not intend to reveal to Mr Connolly what happens in Cabinet. If he wants to find out, he can do what seems to be fairly common these days and use his intelligence system to find out; but he will not find out from me.
School Closures - Legal Aid
MR WOOD: I direct a further question to the Chief Minister. Does the Chief Minister stand by his Attorney-General's public statement that legal aid will be provided to community groups challenging school closures? If the Government is considering so doing, will the Chief Minister then have his Minister for Education refrain from unnecessary comments concerning the likelihood of the success of these actions, as such comments only prejudice the proper consideration of any application for legal aid?
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