Page 932 - Week 04 - Tuesday, 19 April 1994
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MR CORNWELL: Madam Speaker, I seek leave to speak briefly on the matter that you raise.
Leave granted.
MR CORNWELL: I accept the predicament about whether the Speaker is a Minister; but, if we have the option to ask you questions, then standing orders might need to be examined to see whether we can accommodate this difficulty somewhere along the line.
MADAM SPEAKER: That is right. That is indeed the logical conclusion, Mr Cornwell, and perhaps my Committee on Administration and Procedures should undertake to follow that up.
MR CORNWELL: Thank you.
MADAM SPEAKER: Here is the answer, Mr Cornwell, and I am happy to forward it to you.
MR CORNWELL: Thank you.
CANBERRA CLINICAL SCHOOL
Ministerial Statement
MR CONNOLLY (Attorney-General and Minister for Health): I ask for leave of the Assembly to make a ministerial statement on the establishment of the Canberra clinical school.
Leave granted.
MR CONNOLLY: Madam Speaker, it is with some regret that I am delivering this ministerial statement today. As you are aware, the Canberra clinical school is now a reality. It is a great achievement and one which my predecessor, Mr Berry, brought to fruition. He can rightly claim satisfaction in seeing it take place. Madam Speaker, the second Labor Government agreed in principle to the establishment of a clinical school that would place a strong emphasis on primary and aged care services. This emphasis was intended to ensure that medical education would be balanced and would expose medical students to all levels of health service delivery.
A negotiating team was established to consult with key stakeholders as well as interested persons and organisations and to develop a vision for a clinical school in the ACT. The Government agreed to the signing of a memorandum of understanding with the University of Sydney, which is, of course, one of Australia's most long-established and respected medical faculties. The memorandum gave effect to the establishment of the clinical school and was signed on 2 March of last year. It was stated in the memorandum of understanding that the clinical school would be administered by an associate dean who would be a professor of the University of Sydney responsible through the dean of the faculty of medicine in that university to the senate of that university.
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