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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 1 Hansard (17 February) . . Page.. 257 ..
MR HUMPHRIES (continuing):
Mr Speaker, I have also been advised that, under Accounting Standard AAS 15, the loan will be treated as revenue in year one. So it will not be a liability for the ACT; it will be treated as revenue. It seems to me to be very hard to argue that that is anything of a problem to the ACT. It is an excellent arrangement from our point of view. Obviously we want to make sure it is carried through as promised, but all I can report to the Assembly is what we have been promised.
MR HARGREAVES: My question is to the Minister for Justice and Community Safety. Minister, the Government established the Aboriginal Justice Advisory Committee some time ago to provide high-level advice to government regarding the justice system and indigenous people. Can the Minister tell the Assembly when the committee was actually established, who its chair and members are, and how many times it has met?
MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Speaker, I cannot give Mr Hargreaves that information without taking the question on notice. My recollection is that the committee was established late last year. Pursuant to the representations of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Consultative Council that reports to the Chief Minister, the chair of the AJAC was to be elected by AJAC itself, not nominated by the Government, and I understand it has now done that. I apologise that I cannot recall the name of the chair. Given that the thing was established late last year and we have only just emerged from the Christmas and New Year break, I doubt that it has met very many times. Mr Speaker, I am happy to give Mr Hargreaves that information and I will take the question on notice.
MR SPEAKER: Do you have a supplementary question, Mr Hargreaves?
MR HARGREAVES: Thank you, Mr Speaker, and thank you, Minister. I look forward to that. My supplementary question is this: Can the Minister explain how the committee is being involved in the establishment of our prison in the ACT? How do you see its role in that?
MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Speaker, it is my intention to publish shortly a list of organisations that we will invite to be represented on the consultative panel, the community panel, which will overview the prison project. We intend to invite a representative of the Aboriginal Justice Advisory Council to be on that panel.
MR KAINE: My question, I think, is to the Chief Minister. I am never too sure these days to whom I should address questions about Bruce Stadium. I tried yesterday to address one to the Minister for sport, but I think it is still in the Chief Minister's area of responsibility.
MR SPEAKER: Mr Kaine, seeing it is your birthday we will give you an indulgence.
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