Page 911 - Week 04 - Tuesday, 19 April 1994
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Woden Plaza management and a whole range of local community and business organisations. The theme of the mural will be the Woden environment and the design will include images of the Woden community lifestyle, the built environment, and some graphic location information. I look forward to being able to launch this program on Friday.
MRS GRASSBY: I ask a supplementary question, Madam Speaker. Does the Minister see this form of community art as being better on environmental, economic and social grounds than other programs currently being trialled?
MR LAMONT: I thank the member for her supplementary question. I suppose that to some extent that depends upon one's assessment of the differences between what is generically referred to as street art and what we have come to understand and know as community art. Ms Szuty has been extremely involved in setting up a pilot program for street art in an area we have identified for that purpose in Belconnen. I suppose that at this stage the difference between the two is that the community is providing the basis of funds for the community art program at the Woden bus interchange.
We have agreed, as a one-off situation, to provide some funding for the street art in Belconnen. I do have some concerns in relation to the continuation of that program, principally on the basis of the funding of it and a requirement that the community be involved in setting up and supporting the continuation of that street art program. I indicate on the record that in the next couple of days I will be writing to Ms Szuty outlining those concerns and encouraging this program to more closely attune itself to the type of community art program outlined for the mural at the Woden interchange.
Assembly Members - Staff Entitlements
MR HUMPHRIES: Madam Speaker, my question is to the Chief Minister. I remind the Chief Minister of several letters and telephone calls between my office and hers over the past 13 months concerning the review of staffing levels of non-executive Liberal MLAs. May I refresh the Chief Minister's memory as to what she told the Assembly's Estimates Committee on 30 September last year concerning the report of the Office of Public Sector Management on this subject. She said:
I freely admit, Madam Chair, that the report is on my desk and I have yet to consider it. I freely admit that.
Those comments were made well over six months ago. The report itself was commissioned apparently something like six months before that. The Chief Minister went on to tell the committee that she did not know exactly how long the report had been there. Can the Chief Minister tell the Assembly precisely what it is that is preventing her from considering and acting upon that report? Can she indicate approximately when a decision will be made on the matter, on which she was able to make a decision much more rapidly in respect of other members of the Assembly in the past?
MS FOLLETT: Madam Speaker, I will take Mr Humphries's question on notice and advise him as soon as I possibly can.
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