Page 5245 - Week 16 - Thursday, 28 November 1991
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Mr Jensen: Where?
MR BERRY: I will do it again. I do not know whose truck picked up the furniture from Royal Canberra Hospital, but a question was asked here. The issue was whether the furniture was useable or not, as I recall. It has nothing to do with the opening of the obstetrics unit. I am not quite sure how you - - -
Mr Jensen: Because there was a delay in providing the furniture.
MR BERRY: My information is that the furniture that was taken away to Wagga was furniture that had gone past its point of economic use.
Mr Jensen: Not according to my informant.
MR BERRY: Mr Jensen says that his informant has a different view. One might be able to get a half broken chair and stick it out in one's backyard and get some use out of it, but it might not be very useful in a hospital. I do not know the detail of every article - every broken chair, every chair with torn covering, every chair without torn covering, or every table - that was sold to the person in Wagga; but my understanding is that proper processes were followed in disposing of the equipment. It was disposed of in an appropriate way, and it would not have enhanced the opening date of the obstetrics ward if this worn-out furniture had been retained for that purpose.
Russian Goodwill Flight
MR KAINE: I would like to address a question to the Chief Minister and Treasurer - and this is not a political question.
Mrs Grassby: That worries us.
MR KAINE: It may have some political connotations, though. In the next two to three weeks there will arrive in Canberra a flight of eight Russian light aircraft which will have completed an historic flight from Moscow to Australia. There are some 35 people, I understand, included in the crew and the support crew for these light aircraft. These are private Russian aviators that have undertaken this trip. Has the Government received any application from any source to provide assistance in terms of hospitality for these people while they are in Canberra? If not, would the Government be prepared to accept such an application?
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