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As well as that, there is the interest now being shown by the Federal Government. That was a matter that I commented on last year. I believe that it is essential to this project to have a national perspective, particularly in view of the need for a full environmental impact statement. I am very pleased indeed to see that there is now a cooperative approach and that the Federal Government is taking what I believe to be an appropriate interest in the project.
I am also pleased to see that there is some kind of a timetable now established for consideration of this project. I think that for quite some time now it has been in the realm of the dreamtime really - everybody thinks it is a good idea, but nobody really has any idea whether it is going to happen. There is now a timetable for the consideration of the project through the different phases that it must go through, and I think again that that is an important approach to the project.
I have said many times, Mr Speaker, that this is a project which could be of enormous significance to us in the ACT. It could bring us tremendous benefits, but it could also have an undue impact on our way of life in Canberra. Clearly we need to be aware that it could be a mixed blessing. I do welcome the fact that there is this cooperative approach now available on the very fast train project. I particularly welcome the fact that there is a project timetable and that the need for a detailed environmental impact study has now been built into that timetable.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
TECHNICAL AND FURTHER EDUCATION - WORKING PARTY
Ministerial Statement and Paper
MR KAINE (Chief Minister) (3.41): Mr Speaker, I seek leave to make a ministerial statement on the response to the recommendations of the working party which I convened to review the provision and financial management of TAFE in the ACT.
Leave granted.
MR KAINE: Thank you. Members will recall that on 29 May this year I tabled in the Assembly a statement on the report which had been submitted to me by the working party. The members of this group comprised representatives of employer and union organisations, the student body and the Vocational Training Authority. The report contained a number of recommendations which were the subject of wide community interest and so, after the report's release, I asked the Advisory Committee of the ACT Institute of TAFE to undertake a round of public consultation on the working
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