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MR SPEAKER: Please proceed.
MR JENSEN: Mr Speaker, I do not believe that the Hansard will show that my approach to this matter in the house - and Mr Connolly was general; he was not specific in his remarks - treated the subject in the way Mr Connolly suggested. I would like to put on record that I resent being tarred with the sort of brush that Mr Connolly sought to use in his personal explanation.
Mr Connolly: It was the Chief Minister, Mr Jensen.
MR JENSEN: You did not exclude me, Mr Connolly.
PUBLIC ACCOUNTS - STANDING COMMITTEE
Review of Report of Committee of Inquiry into Assets and Public Debt
MS FOLLETT (Leader of the Opposition) (11.41): Mr Speaker, I present the following papers:
Public Accounts - Standing Committee - Review of the Report of the Committee of Inquiry into the Assets and Public Debt of the Australian Capital Territory –
Report No. 4, dated 10 April 1991.
Copies of extracts of minutes of proceedings.
I move:
That the report be noted.
In presenting this report I would firstly like to express my thanks - and I believe the thanks of the entire Public Accounts Committee - to our secretariat, and most notably, of course, to our secretary, Ms Karin Malmberg. It is always a pleasure to acknowledge the work that Ms Malmberg does for that committee because it is outstanding. I am happy to put that on the record yet again.
Mr Speaker, I would also like to thank those members of the Else-Mitchell committee who met with the Public Accounts Committee to discuss their inquiry and report. The members that we met with were Dr Galligan, Mr Mackintosh and the inquiry secretary, Mr Bryant. The committee thanks them for making their time available.
I think it is a fair comment to say that the Public Accounts Committee found the work of Justice Else-Mitchell and his committee to be very good and useful work. I might just remind the Assembly of the scope of Justice Else-Mitchell's report, Mr Speaker. It was basically, in the judge's own words, an inquiry on behalf of the ACT into what we own and what we owe. In looking at those two central issues, the Else-Mitchell committee went through matters such as the recording of the ACT's assets and an
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