Page 5009 - Week 16 - Tuesday, 26 November 1991

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year 2000 plus. Mr Berry, in our view, has failed the Rally. He failed the people of Canberra's inner north who wanted the Labor Party to do something. I cannot think of a greater breach of faith in the time we have been in parliament.

MR BERRY (Minister for Health and Minister for Sport) (12.34 am): I say no more than that I disagree with Mr Collaery's construction and note his comments.

Proposed expenditure agreed to.

Proposed expenditure - Division 270 - Public and Community Health, $47,475,300

MRS NOLAN (12.34 am): Very briefly, I would like to place on record my concerns in relation to the community health area, in particular some of the cuts that are currently occurring in that area. I think it really is most inappropriate and I hope that the Government will reconsider its position.

Proposed expenditure agreed to.

Advance to the Minister Administering the Audit Act 1989

Proposed expenditure - Division 300 - Treasurer's Advance, $8,946,000 - agreed to.

Clauses 1 to 6, by leave, taken together, and agreed to.

Clause 7

MR COLLAERY (12.35 am): I move:

Page 3, line 3, add at the end the following subclauses:

"(2) Money appropriated by this Act for services under the programs specified in Part II of the Schedule as 'DIVISION 220 - GOVERNMENT SCHOOLING' and 'DIVISION 230 - NON-GOVERNMENT SCHOOLING' respectively shall not be applied otherwise than in a manner that ensures a fair and reasonable allocation of that money between the relevant services under those programs.

"(3) Any decision made, proposed to be made or required to be made (whether in the exercise of a discretion or not) in relation to the application of money appropriated by this Act for services under a program referred to in subsection (2), being a decision under an Act administered as part of that program, shall, for the purposes of the Administrative Decisions (Judicial Review) Act 1989, be taken to be a decision to which the last-mentioned Act applies.


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