Page 516 - Week 02 - Thursday, 25 February 1993
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We are about to get the second report. I do not know what is in it, of course, and it may be accompanied by a whole bunch of issues papers. We will have to wait for the Chief Minister to reveal all this. My only question is: When does stage 2 finish and when are we going to see these issues papers that are referred to here, so that we can begin to understand where the study is going and the kinds of things that they regard as being important? We are halfway through the study now, on a pure timescale, and I would have thought that if there were issues papers being prepared we would have started to see some of them by now. Maybe that indicates that the study is not going as quickly as we had planned and hoped for, and that it may take a little longer than the timescale currently applied.
Mr Deputy Speaker, I am interested in it. It was an interesting initial document. It is history; it is already quite old. The next stage in the saga will be revealed to us this afternoon by the Chief Minister, but at least I am gratified that here at last we are seeing a study that does have some element of strategic thinking to it.
MS FOLLETT (Chief Minister and Treasurer) (12.38), in reply: Mr Deputy Speaker, I simply want to thank members for their comments and to reiterate that this is a motion passed by the Assembly and that that motion requires the Government to report at quarterly intervals. The next report on the Canberra in the Year 2020 study is due at the end of February and I will be tabling the second report this afternoon. Mr Kaine has asked about issues papers. Mr Deputy Speaker, I should say that I think he will find that he is more than adequately supplied with issues papers by about 3 o'clock this afternoon.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Sitting suspended from 12.38 to 2.30 pm
QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE
Flag - Contract
MR KAINE: I would like to direct a question to the Chief Minister. Given the Chief Minister's commitment to resolving the problems of unemployment in the ACT, can the Chief Minister tell us whether or not it is a fact that a contract for our new flag, the symbol of the independent Canberra, has been awarded to a Sydney firm, with delivery to be made by 10 March?
MS FOLLETT: Madam Speaker, I thank Mr Kaine for the question. I do not have information with me on that question. I will find out as quickly as I can and advise Mr Kaine of the answer.
Fightback - Treasury Analysis
MS ELLIS: My question is also directed to the Chief Minister. Why did the Chief Minister table a copy of the Treasury analysis of Fightback when Premier Fahey has refused to reveal a similar document from the New South Wales Treasury?
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