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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1996 Week 9 Hansard (27 August) . . Page.. 2617 ..

MR WOOD: It is an interjection that needs a response, Mr Speaker.

MR SPEAKER: It is out of order. It is an out-of-order interjection. Just keep to the supplementary question.

MR WOOD: You did not pull him into line at that stage, Mr Speaker. If you had pulled him into line I would not have been inclined to answer it.

MR SPEAKER: Are you going to ask the supplementary question?

MR WOOD: I will also point out to the Chief Minister in this supplementary question - - -

Mr Kaine: On a point of order, Mr Speaker: You have twice asked the member to have regard to standing orders and to ask his supplementary question without the preamble. He is still ignoring you. I suggest that there is a course of action available to you, Mr Speaker.

MR SPEAKER: Mr Kaine, I will take note of that. Ask your supplementary question, Mr Wood.

MR WOOD: I think my question, Mr Speaker, is much shorter than anything from across there.

MR SPEAKER: Never mind about that. Ask your question.

MR WOOD: Referring to the 30,000 job cuts that the Chief Minister dragged up, I do not know where they came from; I never mentioned them. The only thing I mentioned was the 2,500 job cuts across Australia that had John Howard's signature underneath them. Does she concede that the 3,500 jobs to be lost in Australia is well in excess of the "promise" that was given by Mr Howard? In particular, my supplementary question relates to that modelling and, I repeat, modelling of the impact on the ACT economy, not specifically, on this occasion, the budget. Will she release that modelling so that we can see what the assessments of that impact are? Will she come up with some more detail?

MR SPEAKER: You do not answer the question relating to Mr Howard, Chief Minister.

MRS CARNELL: Thank you, Mr Speaker. I thought I made it very clear that the ACT Government was expecting a virtually no-growth scenario over the next 12 months. I think I made that very clear in my answer, and I assume that is what the member opposite was after.

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