Page 167 - Week 01 - Wednesday, 12 February 2020
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All stakeholders who attended the Ngunnawal Bush Healing Farm governance workshop held in April agreed on the importance of finalising the healing framework before fully actioning the Ngunnawal Bush Healing Farm review recommendations. That work is ongoing with the United Ngunnawal Elders Council and others. The Health Directorate will work with interested stakeholders, including the Ngunnawal Bush Healing Farm advisory board, to assess and develop a response to the report’s recommendations.
MRS KIKKERT: Minister, has this review engaged with stakeholders such as Winnunga or ATODA?
MS STEPHEN-SMITH: I have listed some of the organisations and representative groups with whom this review has engaged. The review has sought to engage very widely with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community members and organisations. It is, of course, up to those organisations to choose whether to participate in the review, in the governance workshop and in the development of the healing framework. The Healing Foundation has been engaged to lead the co-design of the healing framework to support the Ngunnawal Bush Healing Farm that will identify healing priorities of Ngunnawal elders and the broader Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community, balance therapeutic support with approaches that strengthen cultural identity and connection, and embed principles to guide the practice of the Ngunnawal Bush Healing Farm and partner agencies in supporting healing for clients in line with the living web framework.
MR MILLIGAN: Minister, what has been the cost of this long and overdrawn process?
MS STEPHEN-SMITH: I do not have that figure in front of me. I will take the question on notice.
ACT Health—SPIRE project
MS LEE: My question is to the Minister for Health. Documents obtained recently under FOI reveal that ACT Health was allocated $6.5 million in the 2018-19 financial year for the SPIRE project. The Health Directorate spent only $520,000, or less than 10 per cent of this allocation during that financial year. The documents also reveal that, by November last year, a rollover of the 2018-19 allocation was still not completed. Minister, why was there an underspend of virtually all the funds budgeted for the SPIRE project during the 2018-19 financial year?
MS STEPHEN-SMITH: I thank Ms Lee for the question. I will take the detail of that question on notice and go back to check those figures, whether that was in some way a reallocation during the 2018-19 year and how much was required to be rolled over. As I have said in answers to earlier questions, there has been a significant amount of due diligence in relation to this project because this is a major spend.
It is the biggest health infrastructure project that will be delivered in the ACT since self-government. It is the largest modernisation of Canberra Hospital in its history and
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