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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 10 Hansard (24 September) . . Page.. 3212 ..

MRS CARNELL: Mr Speaker, it shows that those opposite cannot handle going to a new supplementary question when I have answered the question to start with. The reason we went to J. Walter Thompson is that they are the world leader in this area. Also, J. Walter Thompson were very pleased and very happy to work with other local businesses. We wanted the best product we could get for the fairly meagre resources the ACT can afford in this sort of major branding approach.

Mr Speaker, I think the words of the managing director of City Graphics really said it all. We did need an outside perspective of the ACT. We did need a perspective that got rid of the chip on our shoulder that we have all tended to have, but we could work with outside expertise and internal local companies and achieve an outcome that is great. The funny thing is that those opposite have said that they actually support this approach. They have said they support the J. Walter Thompson concept. They said they liked it when they were at the launch on Monday. They said they thought it was good. If the outcome - - -

Mr Berry: I was not there.

MRS CARNELL: Mr Corbell was there and he said he supported it.

Mr Corbell: Do you have the quote, Chief Minister?

MR SPEAKER: Order!

MRS CARNELL: Do you mean you do not support it?

Mr Corbell: Do you have the quote? Why are you misquoting me?

MRS CARNELL: Mr Speaker, it is interesting - - -

Mr Whitecross: Do you have the quote or not?

MR SPEAKER: Order! The house will come to order.

MRS CARNELL: Mr Speaker, Mr Corbell got up in this place, I seem to remember - I think it was yesterday - and suggested that any indication that he did not support this approach was simply wrong. Maybe there is something that we do not remember. The other person who obviously supported it was Annette Ellis - a well-known Liberal sympathiser, Mr Speaker! - who got up with me to launch something that she believed strongly was important for Canberra, as we do.

MRS LITTLEWOOD: My question without notice is to the Chief Minister in her capacity as Minister for Business and Employment. I refer to the recent announcement that a Canberra company, Coms21 Ltd, had won a contract to provide so-called smart card systems to a major Chinese corporation. Can the Minister advise whether Coms21 has been assisted by the ACT Government to expand its operations here in Canberra?

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