Page 2294 - Week 08 - Friday, 21 June 1991
Next page . . . . Previous page . . . . Contents . . . . Debates(HTML) . . . . PDF . . . .
community? There is a great degree of job protection in that. I would commend the Chief Minister if she were to bite the bullet and look very carefully at the Public Service, despite the fact that there is an election pending, because much of the recurrent balance that now needs to be found in the budget - following Mr Humphries' misadventures there - will flow on to us if we can start the reconstruction in the ACT Public Service, which is, some say, somewhere between 18,000 and 21,000 or more persons. Mr Speaker, that is the thing that needs to be started. As well, I was disappointed to see that Ms Follett had - - -
Debate interrupted.
ADJOURNMENT
MR SPEAKER: Order! It being 4.30 pm, I propose the question:
That the Assembly do now adjourn.
Mr Berry: I require the question to be put forthwith without debate.
Question resolved in the negative.
GOVERNMENT'S DIRECTION
Ministerial Statement
Debate resumed.
MR COLLAERY: Mr Speaker, I did call upon Ms Follett recently to employ eminent economic minds, independent economic advisers, to look at the current state of the ACT economy. I did that in the context of knowing what would be the advice coming to her from the same officials I have seen traipsing up to her office as traipsed up to ours. It is important, Mr Speaker, that Ms Follett answer that suggestion - yes or no would do - but there is not an answer here. I firmly believe that she must go outside the confines of her current advisers to see whether there are not in-built contradictions in seeking from those very advisers the reconstructions, the economies, the cuts and the restructuring in the Public Service that would threaten their own particular empires. Mr Speaker, we look forward to that statement.
The other issue is that Ms Follett intends to put forward a consultative basis for government. We recognise that. We also note her undertaking to make sure that the committee structure here is representative. It is clear to us that that consultation process, which was going on until we came to the floor today, has broken down, and that there will
Next page . . . . Previous page . . . . Contents . . . . Debates(HTML) . . . . PDF . . . .