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MINISTER FOR HOUSING AND COMMUNITY SERVICES

LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY QUESTION

QUESTION NO 1203

Housing Trust - Photographs in Newsletter-

MR CORNWELL - Asked the Minister for Housing and Community Services upon notice:

(a) is it ACT Housing Trust policy not to identify people in photographs other than the Minister by name;

(b) why were the two tenants (page 2 of the ACT Budget Newsletter of December 1993) not identified by name; and

(c) if it is policy, why.

MR CONNOLLY - The answer to the Member's question is as follows:

(a) It is ACT Housing Trust policy not to print the names and addresses of people being photographed unless they give their permission to do so. Photographs taken for a particular purpose such as publicly available newsletters are records and therefore fall within the scope of the ACT Privacy Act.

(b) It was not the intention of the photograph to publicly identify the two ACT Housing Trust tenants.

(c) The purpose of the policy is to protect the rights of tenants.

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