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committee of leading members of the ACT sporting community and relevant Government officials. The consultant will be specifically examining the current arrangements for the delivery of assistance to sport and the advantages and disadvantages of establishing an ACT sports commission. The investigation will review strategies adopted both locally and elsewhere for providing sport and recreation opportunities to encourage the highest participation rates for all levels of ability and performance.
This proposal is a milestone in the development of Government policy on sport and recreation issues. We will be providing the community - I stress that, Mr Speaker; and I wish Mr Wood would listen - with opportunities to contribute to the consultancy and I expect to be in a position early next year to consider the recommendations from the project. I have no intention at this stage of introducing any knee-jerk legislation to set up a sports commission until there has been that full round of community consultation. It is the type of consultation that all in our Assembly have endorsed, and certainly that legislation will not be introduced until there has been adequate consultation with sporting groups and appropriate consideration by the Government of the recommendations. Clearly we are moving towards creating and putting forward that proposal on the sports commission - - -
Ms Follett: Gunna Collaery. You're gunna do it.
MR COLLAERY: Mr Speaker, we sure are gunna do it, as the Leader of the Opposition said - and we are gunna do it without any knee-jerk reaction and without any show Bills on the floor of this house, because show Bills are not too important in the legislative process.
School Closures - Transport Arrangements
MR WOOD: I direct a question to the Minister for Education. Has advice been given to chairpersons of school boards that bussing of Lyons Primary School children to North Curtin Primary School on a permanent or extended basis is now a very definite option?
MR HUMPHRIES: Not to my knowledge.
Minister for Community Services
MR MOORE: My question is directed to the Chief Minister. I am going to quote some of the draft Hansard and, rather than have him saying I am misquoting, I have highlighted a bit and would be delighted to pass it across to him. I will just give a little bit of background. I refer him to pages 1539 to 1542 of the Estimates Committee Hansard, where evidence was presented that Mr Collaery's Community
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