Page 687 - Week 02 - Thursday, 21 February 1991
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Let us possess the public confidence so long only as, by faithful discharge of the honourable trust reposed in us, we may show ourselves worthy of it. Whenever any one man may say with truth 'the bank has broken faith with us,' be then our ruin, and ours only, the immediate consequences.
Sir Eric Neal stated that people:
... expect their board to set standards - standards of integrity, of trust, of behaviour, of performance, and to ensure these standards are met in this highly competitive world. But the implementation and actions necessary to achieve these standards are in the hands of the managing director and his team, right down to the newly joined customer service officer.
Sir Eric must have been rather concerned to read in July 1988 the comments of Mr Justice Keely in the Federal Court of Australia which I have just referred to. The public advertisements and statements of Westpac seem inconsistent with Allens' report. Westpac has recently taken out injunctions against many Australian media organisations, including, of course, our own Canberra Times, in a bid to suppress those reports. Mr Speaker, when we return to this house it will be important for this Assembly to allow those to be tabled.
ADJOURNMENT
Motion (by Mr Collaery) proposed:
That the Assembly do now adjourn.
Hospital Services
MR HUMPHRIES (Minister for Health, Education and the Arts) (7.06): Mr Speaker, I want to speak briefly on the adjournment. There was debate earlier today about the extent of the hospital system's capacity to deliver services to people in the ACT. I would like to read into the record a letter, a copy of which has been sent to me, by Dr Peter Collignon from the ACT Medical Officers Association. The Government does not always see eye to eye with professional and industrial organisations in the health system in the ACT, but I think it is interesting to read this letter, Mr Speaker.
Mr Duby: We usually do.
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