Page 5190 - Week 17 - Thursday, 13 December 1990
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Mr Connolly: That is outrageous.
MR KAINE: You might think so. I do not ask you where you go when the Assembly is in recess and I do not believe that you have the right to ask me where I go. It is none of your business, frankly.
Ms Follett: That was not the question.
MR KAINE: That was the first part of the question and I have answered that satisfactorily.
Mr Collaery: He is not going to Moscow; that is for sure.
Mr Moore: Why not? He speaks Russian. I believe that he speaks Russian fluently.
MR KAINE: People in and out of the Assembly who need to know the arrangements, certainly during my absence, will be properly informed.
MR CONNOLLY: I have a supplementary question. Is the Chief Minister saying that the Canberra community is not entitled to know who will be the Ministers of the Cabinet of the Government of the Australian Capital Territory for a period of six weeks? Is he so arrogant that he will not advise the Assembly of who will be the Ministers administering the laws of this Territory for the next six weeks? I guess the answer is yes, he is so arrogant.
MR KAINE: I have answered the question, Mr Speaker.
Ambulance Service
MRS NOLAN: My question is to Mr Humphries in his capacity as Minister for Health. Can the Minister inform the Assembly whether he will adopt the recommendations of the joint party staffing paper on the ACT Ambulance Service?
MR HUMPHRIES: At a meeting on 21 November representatives from the ACT Board of Health, including the ACT Ambulance Service, and the Transport Workers Union identified the accumulation of backlogged leave entitlements between 1983 and 1988 as the main problem in the recent dispute which disrupted ambulance services. As a result of that meeting the Ambulance Service and the Transport Workers Union developed a joint party staffing paper identifying a management strategy to resolve that matter.
In the general spirit of cooperation and active preparedness between all parties to resolve the matter, the union has removed all industrial bans that had been placed on the operation of the Ambulance Service pending the result of the ongoing negotiations. I am pleased to advise the Assembly that I am currently discussing the
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