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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1996 Week 1 Hansard (20 February) . . Page.. 30 ..

MR WHITECROSS: Mrs Carnell, this just shows how inadequate is your reading. Mrs Carnell, I know that you have read it now, but when you went into negotiations with the unions you had not even read that document. Do not start waving that document around; you had not even read it.

Mr De Domenico: That is not true.

MR WHITECROSS: You had not even read it.

Mr De Domenico: Whoever has told you that has lied to you, Mr Whitecross.

Mrs Carnell: Fully budget funded.

MR WHITECROSS: Mrs Carnell, yes, that is three words out of a whole document. You read the whole document, Mrs Carnell, and you will know the truth.

Mr De Domenico: You should stop listening to some of your union mates because they are not telling you the truth. Some of your mates are setting you up beautifully. I think they are on this side, actually. They are setting you up beautifully.

MR SPEAKER: Order, Mr De Domenico! You have spoken already, but you can speak on the amendment later, if you wish.

Mr De Domenico: Thank you, Mr Speaker. I might do that.

MR WHITECROSS: Thank you, Mr Speaker. The fact is that Mrs Carnell thinks that there are only two kinds of pay increases. One is paid for by sacking people and the other is paid for by the taxpayers. She has not the flexibility to understand that you can have a productivity offset.

The reason she thinks that is that she wants to keep for herself all the savings from productivity improvements. She wants to keep for herself all the savings from productivity improvements from improving occupational health and safety and rehabilitation. She wants to keep for herself all the savings from productivity improvements from having common conditions of employment across the ACT Government Service. She does not want to share with the unions the savings from the productivity improvements from the more efficient use of office accommodation; she wants to keep all of them for herself. She does not want to share with the workers the savings from productivity improvements from the IT review; she wants to keep them for herself. She does not want to share with the workers the savings from productivity improvements from broadbanding; she wants to keep them for herself. She does not want to share with the work force the savings from productivity improvements from increased mobility so that people who are redundant in one area can move to another area; she wants to keep them for herself. She does not want to share with workers the savings from productivity improvements from simplifying the Public Sector Management Act and making it easier to understand; she wants to keep them for herself.

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