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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 10 Hansard (24 September) . . Page.. 3215 ..

MRS CARNELL: Actually, Mr Speaker, there is half a million dollars for this campaign. That goes without saying. Mr Speaker, if those opposite believe in going into negotiations and saying, "Here is the amount of money we are going to spend up front", then no wonder they do not have a shadow Business Minister.

MR CORBELL: Mr Speaker, I would have thought that advertising companies were the people who negotiated time and space, not the chief executive of the Department of Business.

MR SPEAKER: I would have thought you would ask a supplementary question without a preamble.

MR CORBELL: Mr Speaker, my supplementary question - - -

Mr Humphries: Mr Speaker, I raise a point of order before the next question, and no doubt interjections by those opposite. Members on that side have been very vocal during the Chief Minister's answers today. I think it is appropriate that they be able to hear the answers to the questions that they are asking. I would ask that they be brought into line as far as the standing orders are concerned.

MR SPEAKER: Mr Humphries, I am noticing this. I would caution everybody. I would also suggest that the Government not provoke the Opposition. At the same time, interjections after you have asked your question are certainly out of order, and if I have to deal with them I will. Mr Corbell, ask your supplementary question with no preamble.

MR CORBELL: Yes, I have a supplementary question. Chief Minister, why has the Government launched the advertising campaign Feel the Power of Canberra without having arranged for any - I repeat any - interstate advertising of the campaign prior to its launch? Surely this is an indication of the Government's failure to focus its efforts on getting this advertisement into interstate markets. Surely this demonstrates that the real reason for this campaign so far is to boost the Chief Minister's re-election chances with the Canberra community.

MRS CARNELL: Mr Speaker, again you see what happens when

Mr Corbell or those opposite try to get involved in anything that has anything at all to do with business. I also said yesterday that other ads have been booked already. Those are the Fujitsu ads in national business magazines and in in-flight - - -

Mr Corbell: TV advertising.

MRS CARNELL: You said any advertising at all.

Mr Corbell: TV advertising.

MR SPEAKER: Order!

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