Page 344 - Week 02 - Tuesday, 23 February 1993
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For you to go out and grandstand on the policing issue when what your Federal colleagues are saying would result in a massive slashing of the dollars available to pay for policing, fire protection, ambulance and all emergency services is rank nonsense. This Government has been able to maintain the numbers of police protecting this community, shift the burden of paying for them in a more equitable direction to ensure that the Commonwealth assumes a more correct burden of policing the Commonwealth, and achieve some savings. It could not guarantee police numbers if our Federal funds were slashed.
Trades and Labour Council Picnic Day
MR DE DOMENICO: Madam Speaker, my question without notice is to the Minister for Industrial Relations. No doubt the Minister is aware that the courier and light freight sector of the Transport Workers Union have decided unanimously to allow work on Trades and Labour Council picnic day. Does the Minister concur with the view obviously held by delegates and observers that the TLC picnic day contributes to lower productivity? Will the Minister applaud the decision by the delegates to allow work on the basis that they are contributing to improvements in efficiency in the private sector? Finally, will the Minister therefore now pressure the Trades and Labour Council to observe their picnic day in future years on a weekend?
MR BERRY: Mr De Domenico should take a little time out to have a look at the awards which cover these classifications. He will find that the members who attend Trades and Labour Council picnic days do so in accordance with award provisions. While those award provisions remain in place, members will continue to attend the Labour Council picnic on the day on which it is held. When the Labour Council picnic is held is a matter for the Trades and Labour Council, not for me.
Gungahlin - Aboriginal Site
MR MOORE: Madam Speaker, my question is directed to the Minister for the Environment, Land and Planning and refers to the bulldozing of an Aboriginal site at Gungahlin in January, I think it was. What action have you taken as far as the developers are concerned, and how will such incidents be prevented in the future?
MR WOOD: The action I have taken thus far is to absolutely quarantine that site, to re-establish the fence, and to impress most particularly upon the developers that it is a site that is not to be touched. That was done instantly.
Mr Moore: Was that not done before?
MR WOOD: Yes, it certainly was done before but, unaccountably, despite the fact that the documentation on this site was in the sale conditions and was in the agreement between the developer and the department as to development conditions, and there was a fence around it, it was still knocked over.
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