Page 3457 - Week 12 - Wednesday, 19 September 1990
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Kingston Power House and the adjacent foreshore area". I ask the Chief Minister: exactly where is that proposal now?
MR KAINE: Mr Speaker, as I understand it, any proposal that was before the Assembly or in the public domain as long ago as July last year has long since passed into antiquity. There is a current proposal being put together. It has not yet been put to the Government in any final form. A concept has been discussed with a couple of members of the Government and it has been discussed at some length with officers of the departments responsible for such a planning and development proposal. It is by no means yet a firm proposal. Of course, any proposal for the development of the Kingston foreshores requires not only the approval of the territorial planning authority in this Government but also the endorsement of the National Capital Planning Authority because much of that land is either national land or designated land for planning purposes. Hence the endorsement of the National Capital Planning Authority, and perhaps even members of the Federal Parliament as well as the members of this one, would be required.
It is a relatively new proposal. It is not by any means the same proposal that was put forward last year. There are different people involved in it. If and when it becomes a firm proposal, the Government will give it serious consideration.
Nurses - Salaries and Penalty Rates
MR STEFANIAK: My question is to Mr Humphries. What are the implications for ACT nurses of the recent Full Bench decision regarding national uniform salary and penalty rates for nurses covered by the Federal award?
MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Speaker, I thank Mr Stefaniak for his question. As a result of this decision that Mr Stefaniak has referred to, ACT nurses at levels 1 to 3 will receive a salary increase as from 21 August of this year. The percentage increases for registered nurses range from 3.8 per cent to 11.5 per cent. As the increases include the structural efficiency principle adjustment due in September of this year, they are being phased in over three stages, with half being paid immediately, the 3 per cent SEP increase this month, and the remainder in April of next year.
A second decision established consistent penalty rates for nurses across all Federal awards; that is, ACT, South Australia, Western Australia, Northern Territory and Tasmania. There will no longer be a permanent night shift penalty of 30 per cent but rather an after hours penalty of 15 per cent. The Saturday penalty will be 50 per cent and the Sunday penalty 75 per cent. Details of the applications of these changes are still being negotiated.
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