Page 5664 - Week 17 - Thursday, 5 December 1991
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of the Environment, Land and Planning for six months. His principal tasks will be to develop and facilitate liaison arrangements with sport and recreation organisations in the ACT, to promote and market ACT sport and recreation activities and to ensure maintenance of close links between government and the racing industry.
Mr Conway has a relevant background in relation to sport, recreation and racing and will make a useful contribution to the tasks which are needed to be dealt with. Mr Conway will be responsible to the secretary of the department.
Mr Kaine: What salary is he being paid, as a matter of interest?
MR BERRY: You should have included that in your question yesterday and you could have got an answer. The arrangements for Mr Conway's secondment were made according to the usual public service procedure. This is not a ministerial appointment and no Ministers were involved in the arrangements.
Parking Tickets - Taxis
MR CONNOLLY: On 26 November Mr Duby asked me a question concerning complaints from taxi drivers about inflexibility of parking inspectors. I have been waiting for an after question time period when Mr Duby was present, but I will give the information now anyway.
The complaint that Mr Duby outlined has been investigated by Parking Operations, and I am told that the cab driver in question had been warned earlier that very day concerning an identical offence at the same location, which was outside Canberra Lada on Bunda Street immediately opposite the cinema taxi rank. That is a very dangerous location for vehicles to park in, because it forces buses leaving the interchange to mount the traffic island in the centre of the street to pass vehicles parked there. The driver had been warned of the dangerous nature of the place at which he was setting down disabled passengers. He had been let off the first time, but when it happened the second time that afternoon he was issued with a ticket.
In October of this year Aerial Taxis and Parking Operations began a trial involving the use of special stickers by taxi drivers conveying disabled persons. The stickers are displayed on the dashboard of the taxi and allow the taxi to use disabled parking zones while assisting persons to and from appointments. I am told that this scheme has been well received both by taxi drivers and by disabled patrons.
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