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ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
CHIEF MINISTER FOR THE AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY QUESTION
Question No 41
Community Consultation
MR CORNWELL - Asked the Chief Minister upon notice on 7 April 1992:
In relation to your Community Consultative Meetings:
(1) How many such meetings were held following the first meeting on 21 June 1989 at the Northside Community Centre, Ainslie.
(2) Where and when were each of these other meetings held and which Labor Ministers were present.
(3) Were non-Government Assembly Members invited to attend the meetings at (2) and if not, why not.
(4) Is it your Governments intentions to hold: such meetings during the term of the Second Assembly and, if so, will non-Government members be invited to attend.
MS FOLLETT - The answer to the Members question is as follows:
(1) - (4) The Government holds numerous consultative meetings with community groups or with the general public.
The nature of these consultations varies from private meetings with one or more Ministers on specific issues to publicly advertised meetings which any member of the public, including Assembly members, is welcome to attend. An example of the latter category is the recent publicly advertised consultation on the proposed North Watson development, which was attended by at least one nonGovernment member.
The meeting on 21 June 1989 at the Northside Community Centre, to which the Member refers, was
• organised and paid for by the Australian Labor Party and was publicly advertised as an opportunity for members of the public to meet with Government Members.
The Australian Labor Party has since organised several similar community consultative meetings, the most recent being at Narrabundah College and Dickson College late last year. Further community consultative meetings may be organised and paid for by the Labor Party from time to time. The Member will understand that I will not give him advance warning of these meetings.
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