Page 3558 - Week 12 - Thursday, 20 September 1990
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How much of this amount is for redundancy payments and how many jobs will be affected?
The answer to that question is that none of the $10m requested for the hospitals redevelopment project is for redundancies. Rather, it will be used to fund the construction element of the project to enable significant recurrent savings in future ACT budgets.
National Press Club Address
MR KAINE: The final question was from Mr Berry. It referred to an advertisement which appeared in the Canberra Times of 12 September in connection with an address that I was delivering to the National Press Club. He asked whether the ACT Government paid for that advertisement.
I have been told that my department published the advertisement mentioned in Mr Berry's question. I would say that it did it without reference to me. However, I do consider it perfectly legitimate for the people of Canberra to be informed where the head of the Executive Government, whoever that is, is involved in an event such as that. It was an event of considerable interest. It had to do with the financial future of the ACT. I made a lengthy speech on the subject and the Press Club was full - which indicates that there was a lot of interest in that subject.
Ms Follett: It made money for the Press Club, which is why it should have paid for the ad.
MR KAINE: It is interesting that I now have the previous Government's response to this, because I would like to refer to what I consider to be blatant misuse of public moneys by the previous Government. I refer to a series of advertisements in the media, put there by Mrs Ellnor Grassby with her photograph and signature on the bottom - all of them at public expense. That is a gross misuse of public money.
ACT Driving Licences
MR DUBY: Mr Speaker, yesterday Mr Stevenson asked me a supplementary question concerning the availability of driver licences for shorter terms than five years.
I am pleased to be able to advise Mr Stevenson that driver licences are issued for terms shorter than five years. This occurs in cases where licence holders advise that they are leaving the ACT within a short time. In such cases some evidence of travel or posting is requested and approval is granted at counter supervisor level at the Motor Vehicle Registry. Short-term licences are also issued in cases of declared hardship, where people cannot
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