Page 2257 - Week 08 - Tuesday, 28 August 2007
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Ms Gallagher: It is not in this department; it is in the Department of Disability, Housing and Community Services.
MR PRATT: Yes it is.
Mr Smyth: It might be in TAMS.
Ms Gallagher: No, it is in the Department of Disability, Housing and Community Services, but it is not in this output.
MR PRATT: Mr Speaker, I will continue, unless you rule me out of order. There is broad confusion but I will proceed, unless you rule me out of order. I wish to speak about multicultural affairs, which I presume is part of the Chief Minister’s department, so I will speak accordingly. On page 67 of budget paper 3 there is expenditure of $125,000 for the culturally and linguistically diverse women’s program and $250,000 for the outyears, which is welcome money.
I welcome the initiatives that have been taken. I congratulate the Minister for Multicultural Affairs on his announcement today that bus transport initiatives will be implemented for the carrying of elderly multicultural citizens, which I think is a good initiative. Elderly folk in the multicultural community need much more assistance than they have been getting. As they grow older they tend to revert to their first language and sometimes feel a lot more disoriented than the rest of us at that age, so any initiative that is implemented to help them out would certainly be welcome.
I have not seen too much in the way of grants to the South Sudanese community. I wanted to raise that issue and to put in a plug for the South Sudanese community, an interesting community that is going through—
Mr Hargreaves: You are in the wrong department.
MR PRATT: You are about the fourth person to raise this issue.
Mr Hargreaves: Just keep going.
MR PRATT: I am on a mission and I will just have to proceed.
Mr Hargreaves: If I were you I would keep it to the right department and then get it in context.
MR PRATT: I have received three sets of conflicting advice. I will continue unless you want me to delay it until another time when you are around.
Mr Hargreaves: I have been around all the time.
MR PRATT: All right, I will proceed. So the South Sudanese—
Mr Hargreaves: It is a bit of a waste.
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