Page 4230 - Week 15 - Tuesday, 20 November 1990
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Mr Berry: You have done it. The waiting lists have exploded through the roof.
MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Berry apparently fails to accept reality. There will be no loss of bed numbers, and that is the position.
School Closures - Cook Primary School
MR CONNOLLY: My question is to the Minister for Education. Minister, what do you expect to do on day one of next year with the children from Cook Primary School when they will not be able to fit into either Macquarie or Aranda primary schools?
MR HUMPHRIES: The question is entirely hypothetical. I am tempted to sit down and say that it is hypothetical because, in fact, the children from that school will be accommodated quite comfortably in both of those two schools.
Mrs Grassby: Sitting on each other's lap.
MR HUMPHRIES: No, they will not be on each other's lap. There is capacity in those schools to accommodate those children. That is the simple fact.
Tourism and Marketing Group
MR STEFANIAK: My question is to Mr Duby, the Minister for Finance and Urban Services. Would the Minister inform the Assembly about the formation of a New South Wales east region tourism and marketing group? I would ask him how this group actually will fit in with the ACT Government,s "Made in the ACT Region" campaign.
MR DUBY: I thank Mr Stefaniak for the question. There has been a longstanding relationship between the ACT Government tourism authority and the surrounding regional areas. This new group was formed in recognition of that relationship following a meeting on 1 November between the ACT and New South Wales tourism commissions and tourism representatives of the councils in the ACT region.
The meeting - an initiative, I might add, of the ACT Tourism Commission - was set up to discuss the tourism marketing activities of each of these bodies and possibilities for cooperative marketing. Members from all the councils covered by the "Made in the Canberra Region" campaign have been invited to be part of the group. The operation of the tourism marketing group will complement the "Made in the Canberra Region" campaign but will involve completely separate activities centring on the unique aspects offered by each area of the region. It is
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