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for the ACT Government, namely, that they have worked in two roles; one as a subcontractor and one as a project manager. The letter that Mr Connolly referred to is one that was written to R and G Shelley Pty Limited as project managers and related to arrangements for the handling of progress payments to contractors engaged by them under that arrangement, as I said in my original statement during the debate.
No letters have been sent to any contractors relating to the terms of payment between them and their subcontractors, nor are there any contractual provisions which provide for an audit of the contractor's records. Again, no letters have been written to any contractors on this subject by ACT Public Works. If you do not know what you are talking about, do not ask the questions.
NURSES CAREER STRUCTURE REVIEW
Ministerial Statement and Papers
MR HUMPHRIES (Minister for Health, Education and the Arts), by leave: Mr Speaker, I thank the Assembly for granting leave. I present the following papers:
Nurses career structure review in the Australian Capital Territory -
Report, dated 29 June 1990.
Ministerial statement, 18 September 1990.
The review was conducted by Ms Mary Perrett, Senior Assistant Commonwealth Ombudsman, New South Wales Division, who was the Chairperson, and Ms Aileen Monck, Director of Nursing, Flinders Medical Centre, South Australia. The report was presented to me on 6 July this year.
The ACT nurses' career structure was introduced in 1987 following a decision by the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. During the implementation process an agreement was negotiated between the ACT Community and Health Service and the Australian Nursing Federation to hold a review of the career structure within 12 months of implementation.
The ACT Community and Health Service has always been of the opinion that the career structure as implemented provided excessive resourcing at the senior levels with a resulting "top heavy" structure. In comparison with interstate examples, even taking into account differences in service provision, the Community and Health Service has maintained that the percentage of senior nursing staff in the ACT structure was excessive and cost ineffective. In November of last year a joint decision was made to hold the review as an agreed item under the structural efficiency principle of the national wage case principles. In December of last year, therefore, I commissioned an independent review of the career structure of nurses in the ACT. The process and terms of reference were jointly negotiated and agreed
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