Page 2602 - Week 09 - Wednesday, 24 August 1994
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breastfeed; but to put a health warning on is something that, as the evidence mounts, governments across Australia may well look at. Thank you for your question. It is a very important health message, and I think that in Canberra we are collectively doing a good job on it.
ACTTAB - Contract with VITAB Ltd
MR STEFANIAK: My question is directed to the Chief Minister. I refer the Chief Minister to recent media reports that one of the persons who were originally proposed as a director of the VITAB corporation in mid-1993 was a Mr Charles Wright, the former chairman of the ACT Tourism Commission Advisory Board and a Canberra businessman. When did your Government first become aware of VITAB's intention to have Mr Wright as a shareholder or director? Did you or your Government exercise any influence in the decision that Mr Wright not continue to be a shareholder in VITAB?
MS FOLLETT: Madam Speaker, it is not a matter of which I have direct knowledge; but, in consultation with the Minister responsible, I can answer Mr Stefaniak in the following terms: As far as I am aware, Mr Wright was not involved in any negotiations in regard to the agreement between ACTTAB and VITAB. I understand that Mr Wright was initially nominated as a proposed shareholder of VITAB, but his name was not put forward to the board of ACTTAB when the formal contracts were signed. The advice I have from the Minister is that Mr Wright was not registered on any documents as either a director or a shareholder of VITAB.
MR STEFANIAK: I ask a supplementary question, Madam Speaker. Chief Minister, are you aware of any documents that are held by your Government in relation to any proposed appointment of Mr Wright as a shareholder or director? If so, would you undertake to table any such documents in the Assembly as soon as possible, given that these matters are clearly now in the public interest and are no longer commercial-in-confidence?
MS FOLLETT: Madam Speaker, I would refer Mr Stefaniak to the final part of my answer. I said that, on the advice I have, Mr Wright was not registered on any documents as either a director or a shareholder of VITAB.
Telecommunications Towers
MS ELLIS: My question is to the Minister for the Environment, Land and Planning. I ask it in the knowledge that this issue has been one of great interest in the media and the community recently. Can the Minister advise the Assembly what progress has been made on the issue of the telecommunications towers throughout the ACT?
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