DEBATES OF THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY FOR THE AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY HANSARD 26 SEPTEMBER 1996 26 September 1996 Thursday, 26 September 1996 Petition: Rugby League Park..........................................................................3419 Public Sector Management (Amendment) Bill (No. 2) 1996 ............................3420 Stamp Duties and Taxes (Amendment) Bill (No. 3) 1996 ................................3420 Motor Traffic (Amendment) Bill (No. 2) 1996.................................................3421 Cremation (Amendment) Bill 1996..................................................................3421 Electoral (Amendment) Bill (No. 3) 1996........................................................3422 Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) (Enforcement) (Amendment) Bill (No. 2) 1996...........................................3422 Withdrawal of notice.......................................................................................3423 Witness Protection Bill 1996 ...........................................................................3423 Bushfire (Amendment) Bill 1996 .....................................................................3423 Air Pollution (Amendment) Bill (No. 2) 1996..................................................3424 Land (Planning and Environment) (Amendment) Bill (No. 3) 1996..................3424 Administrative Appeals Tribunal (Amendment) Bill 1996 ................................3425 Children’s Services (Amendment) Bill 1996.....................................................3425 Administration and Procedure - standing committee ........................................3426 Administration and Procedure - standing committee ........................................3446 Planning and Environment - standing committee..............................................3450 Planning and Environment - standing committee..............................................3452 Public Accounts - standing committee .............................................................3455 Scrutiny of Bills and Subordinate Legislation - standing committee..................3455 Planning and Environment - standing committee..............................................3456 Questions without notice: Budget outcome forecast.....................................................................3456 Job creation programs..........................................................................3459 Report on surveillance cameras............................................................3465 Government assets - sales ....................................................................3466 Appropriation Bill 1996-97 .............................................................................3467 Auditor-General - Report No. 8 of 1996..........................................................3491 Public Sector Management Act - contracts and performance agreements.................................................................................................3492 Sex industry - Government Consultative Group...............................................3492 Community Law Reform Committee ...............................................................3493 State of the Environment Report 1996 ............................................................3493 Films and videotapes - guidelines for classification...........................................3494 Papers.............................................................................................................3495 Community care disability program - continuing reform (Ministerial statement)................................................................................3497 Annual reports ................................................................................................3497 Stamp Duties and Taxes (Amendment) Bill (No. 2) 1996 ................................3497 Electoral (Application) Bill 1996 .....................................................................3498 Adjournment: Housing : Sporting achievements .........................................................3500 Magistrates Court - sentencing ............................................................3500 26 September 1996 Suspension of standing and temporary orders ..................................................3500 Adjournment: Magistrates Court - sentencing ............................................................3501 Civic swimming pool : Euthanasia........................................................3502 Dalai Lama ..........................................................................................3503 Civic swimming pool : Euthanasia : Magistrates Court - sentencing : Garema Place ..............................................................3503 Answers to questions: Fairbairn Park - speedway track (Question No. 257)............................3505 Leases - betterment receipts (Question No. 278)..................................3506 “The Grange”, Deakin - development project (Question No. 282).........................................................................3507 Lease variation application - Dickson (Question No. 285)....................3519 Billboards (Question No. 288) .............................................................3524 Public Service - Senior Executive Service officers (Question No. 291).........................................................................3525 Skin penetration procedures (Question No. 292)..................................3526 Public hospitals - security arrangements (Question No. 294) ................3528 Housing Trust properties - purchases (Question No. 295)....................3529 Canberra Hospital - non-inpatient statistics (Question No. 296) ...........3532 Public Service - consultancies (Question No. 297) ...............................3554 Public Service - industrial relations consultants (Question No. 298).........................................................................3558 Public Service - industrial relations consultants (Question No. 299).........................................................................3560 Public Service - industrial relations consultants (Question No. 300).........................................................................3562 Public Service - industrial relations consultants (Question No. 301).........................................................................3564 Public Service - recruitment consultants (Question No. 302)................3566 Public Service - executive contracts consultants (Question No. 303).........................................................................3568 Public Service - performance agreements consultants (Question No. 304).........................................................................3570 Public Service - Executive Service Project consultants (Question No. 305).........................................................................3572 Public Service - workers compensation consultants (Question No. 306).........................................................................3574 Public Service - information technology consultants (Question No. 307).........................................................................3576 Public service - travel allowance payment trial (Question No. 308).........................................................................3578 Canberra Institute of Technology - financial systems consultants (Question No. 309).......................................................3580 Public Service - public administration consultants (Question No. 310).........................................................................3582 National Capital Investment Centre - consultants (Question No. 311).........................................................................3584 26 September 1996 Public Service - financial systems consultants (Question No. 312).........................................................................3586 Public Service - financial systems consultants (Question No. 313).........................................................................3588 Chief Minister’s Department - corporate credit cards (Question No. 314).........................................................................3590 Chief Minister’s Department - corporate credit cards (Question No. 315).........................................................................3605 Totalcare Industries Ltd - consultants (Question No. 316) ...................3607 Chief Minister’s Department - photocopier lease payment (Question No. 317).........................................................................3610 Landfill sites - scavenging rights (Question No. 318)............................3611 Department of Health and Community Care - staff workshop (Question No. 321).........................................................................3612 Land subdivisions - energy audits (Question No. 322)..........................3615 Australian Public Service - job losses (Question No. 324) ....................3616 Gungahlin Development Authority (Question No. 329)........................3617 Appendix 1: Public Sector Management (Amendment) Bill (No. 2) 1996 ..............................................................................................3619 Appendix 2: Stamp Duties and Taxes (Amendment) Bill (No. 3) 1996.............3622 Appendix 3: Motor Traffic (Amendment) Bill (No. 2) 1996.............................3626 Appendix 4: Cremation (Amendment) Bill 1996 ..............................................3629