Page 3501 - Week 12 - Wednesday, 19 September 1990
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mall, or medium density development, unless the plan allowed for it. If a change were proposed, there would have to be a very good planning reason to allow such a use. Clearly, this is not a simple process, as has already been indicated.
Let us go on to the issue about what the land is really worth. If the land were to remain for diplomatic uses under current arrangements, then, provided the diplomatic mission made land available to the Australian Government free of charge in its country, it would be possible for us to provide a free grant of land to the diplomatic mission. In the event of no arrangement, then the land is available at concession rentals. For community use and/or recreational open space use, the land is worth very little. Such a valuation, of course, would have to be done by the Australian Valuation Office, and would be based on the proposed or current lease purpose.
Nutrition Time
MR HUMPHRIES (Minister for Health, Education and the Arts) (5.15): Mr Deputy Speaker, this time of the year has been designated as Nutrition Time and I would like to speak briefly about it. Nutrition Time is an activity - - -
Mr Duby: I would rather talk about dinnertime.
MR HUMPHRIES: If you wait, Mr Duby, you will find out all about what things you should be eating during dinnertime. Nutrition Time is a national event held every year. It is organised under the auspices, I understand, of an organisation called the Australian Nutrition Foundation which has an ACT branch or division. It has a number of activities every year and in the course of the last few days I have been pleased to attend a couple of them.
The first was a public seminar held at the University of Canberra last Wednesday night and entitled, "Is our food safe and healthy?". At that seminar there were four speakers who covered a large range of issues of some importance with respect to issues of nutrition. I might say at this point that the Australian Nutrition Foundation is an organisation of people including nutritionists, teachers, community nurses and others concerned about the quality of food consumed by us in our society. They are concerned that there should be information available to citizens about the quality of the food that we consume. I am sure those in this house would share the concerns and objectives of the Australian Nutrition Foundation that there should be a heightening of awareness of what is healthy and what is not.
That public seminar on Wednesday night which I attended, and which I understand Mr Speaker also attended at least part of, was followed last Sunday by a carnival of food and
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