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Hospital Redevelopment
MR CONNOLLY: Mr Speaker, my question is to the Chief Minister, Mr Kaine. On 27 September of this year, I understand, the Australian Federation of Construction Contractors was notified of its appointment as the consultant to coordinate industrial relations and occupational health and safety on the public hospitals redevelopment project. Why, Mr Chief Minister, was that contract cancelled three weeks later?
MR KAINE: Mr Speaker, I have no idea. I am not responsible for the management of that project, as I said before. I suggest that if Mr Connolly wants an answer to that question he should ask the responsible Minister, Mr Humphries, who is managing that project.
MR CONNOLLY: I have a supplementary question, Mr Speaker. Has the Chief Minister been spoken to by a senior officer of the Liberal Party in relation to this matter?
MR KAINE: No.
School Closures - Interim Territory Planning Authority
MR STEFANIAK: My question is to the Minister for Education, Mr Humphries. Did the Government ignore advice from the Interim Territory Planning Authority in deciding on school closures?
Ms Follett: Yes. I can answer that one.
MR HUMPHRIES: Unfortunately Ms Follett is not in government - fortunately for all of us. Mr Speaker, the answer to Mr Stefaniak's question, for which I thank him, is as follows. The planning authority document referred to in a recent Canberra Times article, I think last Saturday, was only a small part of a very wide-ranging involvement by the authority in the schools reshaping project over a long period. During June and July, the period leading up to the announcement of the particular closures proposed, officers of the planning authority and the schools reshaping team met on about 10 occasions, with a great deal of material changing hands.
The ITPA document to which the article referred contained both town planning and educational policy advice. Although the town planning advice was in general accepted, the Government decided to accept the educational policy advice provided by the educational specialists in the Ministry for Health, Education and the Arts, to the extent that it was different.
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