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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1996 Week 5 (Hansard) 16 May) . . Page.. 1350 ..

MRS CARNELL (continuing):

in the inner north and inner south, who really could not afford to pay some of the huge increases that ended up occurring under the old system. That was an approach that we simply were not willing to take, Mr Speaker. So, we believed that, while we continued to look at such issues as improved capital value, it was very appropriate to give the people of Canberra the confidence of a 3 per cent increase this year and CPI again next year.

MR WHITECROSS: I have a supplementary question. Chief Minister, will you table today the current - that is, the 1996 - ACT land valuations suburb by suburb, as you made the 1995 figures available last year? Will you admit that you have painted yourself into a corner on the rates issue and have no idea of where to go?

MRS CARNELL: No, I will not agree with that. I know where to go. We want to give confidence to the people of Canberra. There is no doubt, Mr Speaker, that property valuations - - -

Mr Whitecross: Will you table them?

MR SPEAKER: Will you be quiet.

MRS CARNELL: Thank you, Mr Speaker. There is no doubt that property valuations in many suburbs have gone down. What would have happened under the previous Government's approach to that would be that the multiplying factor would have gone up quite substantially.

Mr Berry: Mr Speaker, on a point of order: I heard the member who asked Mrs Carnell the question ask her whether she would table the document.

Mr Hird: Excuse me, Mr Speaker - - -

MR SPEAKER: Order! What is the point of order?

Mr Berry: The one that is contained in this book.

MR SPEAKER: Which number?

Mr Berry: Standing order 118(a), which says that the answer shall be concise and confined to the subject matter of the question. The subject matter of the question was whether she would table the document.

MR SPEAKER: The Chief Minister has not yet finished her answer to the supplementary question.

MRS CARNELL: Mr Speaker, I was not aware that that was the total supplementary question. I understood that the supplementary question went on substantially from that comment, and that is what I am answering at this stage.

MR SPEAKER: And the Chief Minister may choose to answer the question as she sees fit.

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