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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 7 Hansard (26 June) . . Page.. 2216 ..

MR SPEAKER: Order! The next person who interjects I will warn and that will then be followed by a naming. I will maintain that for the rest of this session, no matter how long it lasts.

Mr Wood: It was not always the way, but anyway - - -

MR SPEAKER: I warn you, Mr Wood.

MR CORBELL: Mr Speaker, the four projects that the Government has specifically linked to this scheme are the employment of three additional staff, a wetlands observation deck, new river trail work and additional promotional materials. Those are the four projects, no others. No other conditions apply, and the Minister should not have said that there were some. The reality is that other projects at Tidbinbilla will still proceed, including the upgrading of roads and the improvement of the water supply system. The brush-tailed wallaby enclosure and the water supply system will be upgraded with funds from the existing capital works budget.

Unlike the Minister, we need to be very clear about what is being funded by the fee and what is not. Unfortunately, it would appear that the Government has been prepared only to muddy the waters and to threaten members who may have been undecided on this issue. The Government is also seeking to justify its position on this issue of fees by saying that, because it believes that the Labor Party would have done this if we were in office, then it is okay if they do it.

Mrs Carnell: You said that the Labor Party had never supported this.

MR SPEAKER: Order! Chief Minister, I have said that if people continue to interject I will deal with them, and I mean that. We have a lot of work to get through.

MR CORBELL: Mr Speaker, I wish she would leave so easily at other times as well. Mr Speaker, the Minister is predicating his own actions - - -

Mr Humphries: Mr Speaker, I rise on a point of order. Obviously, Mr Corbell has cast aspersions on your independence and your lack of bias.

MR SPEAKER: I did not hear it, as it happens, Mr Humphries.

Mr Humphries: The comment was that it is a pity you are not prepared to be so enforcing at other times. I think that was the comment.

Mr Berry: No, he never said that, Mr Speaker.

Mr Humphries: What did he say, Mr Berry?

Mr Berry: He said, "I wish Mrs Carnell would leave so quickly at other times". That is what Mr Corbell said. I heard him quite well. Re-creating history is a fashionable event for you, but that is not what happened.

MR SPEAKER: It has been confirmed. Continue, Mr Corbell.

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