Page 2613 - Week 10 - Wednesday, 14 October 1992
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MR DE DOMENICO: Madam Speaker, I am going to ignore the interjections from the monkeys at the back. Figures show that retail growth in the ACT is flat.
Mr Berry: I raise a point of order, Madam Speaker. That sort of language is unparliamentary and uncalled for.
MADAM SPEAKER: It is stretching parliamentary language a little, Mr De Domenico. I would ask you to refrain from making such comments and perhaps to withdraw.
MR DE DOMENICO: Thank you, Madam Speaker. Figures show that retail growth in the ACT is flat. Even the Government's own forecasts on employment predict rising unemployment well into 1993. That is the Government's own forecast.
Mr Berry: Which figures?
MR DE DOMENICO: Let me quote, Madam Speaker. This article says:
Unemployment in the ACT is likely to continue rising until at least mid-1993 despite an improvement in employment prospects, according to long-term forecasts prepared for the ACT Government.
Mr Berry: That is a newspaper report; it is not the Government's.
MR DE DOMENICO: I will table it, Mr Berry. Just relax. Sit down and relax. I know that it is not good news, but sit down and listen anyway. It continues:
In its forecast of ACT population changes to the year 2005 and employment changes for this financial year and next, the Chief Minister's Department's economic development division forecasts an unemployment rate for the ACT of 7.9 per cent in June 1992, rising to 8.4 per cent by June 1993.
They are not my figures, Madam Speaker; they are not the paper's figures, Mr Berry; they are from the Chief Minister's Economic Development Division. Would you like me to table that?
Mr Berry: No.
MR DE DOMENICO: It was available in the Canberra Times the other day. So, the Government's own - - -
Mr Lamont: It was available in the Canberra Times?
MADAM SPEAKER: Continue, please, Mr De Domenico.
Ms Follett: You have put him off.
Mr Lamont: I am sorry.
MR DE DOMENICO: You did not put me off. It is like being hit over the head with a warm spinach leaf, honestly.
Mr Lamont: I do apologise for making him miss his beat.
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