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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 8 Hansard (27 August) . . Page.. 2536 ..

MR HUMPHRIES: I thank members. I move:

That the Assembly authorises the publication of Auditor-General's Report No. 7 of 1997.

Question resolved in the affirmative.

MR SPEAKER: Ms Tucker, during question time you asked for leave to table a document, did you not?

MS TUCKER: I did.

Leave granted.

MS TUCKER: I table the following paper:

Energy - Workbook for fuel combustion activities - Extract - Table B.2 prepared by National Greenhouse Gas Inventory Committee.

MR HUMPHRIES (Attorney-General): Mr Speaker, for the information of members and pursuant to section 12 of the Remuneration Tribunal Act 1995, I present determination No. 21, including statement relating to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

I also present, pursuant to standing order 83A, an out-of-order petition lodged by Mr Hird from 28 residents relating to the sale and use of fireworks.

MR HUMPHRIES (Attorney-General and Minister for Police and Emergency Services) (3.42): Mr Speaker, I ask for leave to make a ministerial statement on the ACT's response to the Thredbo landslide.

Leave granted.

MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to the many Canberrans who participated in the massive effort to search for survivors, and ultimately rescue one, who were involved in the Thredbo disaster. In the early hours of the morning of Thursday, 31 July, police and Fire Brigade communications officers took calls from their New South Wales counterparts seeking urgent deployment of rescue resources to a structural collapse in Thredbo Village. Police, ambulance and fire officers from Canberra, assisted by members of the ACT Emergency Service, were among the first on the scene and were confronted by a tragedy about which we are now all too well aware.

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