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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 10 Hansard (25 September) . . Page.. 3297 ..

MR BERRY: Mr Speaker, when will this Chief Minister accept - - -

Mrs Carnell: Mr Speaker, I take a point of order. No preamble.

MR BERRY: It was hardly a preamble.

MR SPEAKER: You are getting to the question. Proceed.

MR BERRY: When - it is an interrogatory "when" - will this Chief Minister accept that there are 1,400 more unemployed than there were when she came to office, and that she took us to 8.6 per cent unemployment before she took it down to a level which is about the same as when she took office? When will this Chief Minister accept that for the last three months the unemployment lists in the ACT have been growing? When will this Chief Minister accept that there are 400 more unemployed people than last month, 300 of them women? When will this Chief Minister finally accept that campaigns promoting the Canberra region are not effective if the Government does not take account of effects on the region when formulating policy? When will the Chief Minister take the blinkers off and take into account the effects on the region as formal criteria for the formulation of new policies? When will the Chief Minister accept that for the last three months, according to the Bureau of Statistics figures, which talk about gross State product in trend terms, there has been negative growth? When will the Chief Minister accept that between this June and last June the gross State product fell by 0.5 per cent?

Mr Kaine: Mr Speaker, I am trying to take a point of order. My point of order is: How many questions is the Leader of the Opposition allowed as a supplementary question?

MR SPEAKER: Provided the supplementary question is relevant to the original question or arises out of the answer given, contains no preamble and produces no new matter, and is put in precise and direct terms, it is in order. They were, in fact, all relevant, Mr Kaine. They might have been a bit longwinded, but they were relevant.

MRS CARNELL: Mr Speaker, when will those opposite realise that the ACT is now out of recession on the basis of our policy? When will those opposite realise there have been 6,100 new jobs since last November? When will those opposite - - -

Mr Berry: I take a point of order. I am the one who asks the questions.

MRS CARNELL: Mr Speaker, I have just been given an update on some of the figures, because people are getting jobs all the time in Canberra.

MR SPEAKER: Even in the last few minutes.

MRS CARNELL: Just in the last few minutes, Mr Speaker. When I answered about Youth500 I said it was 120. It is now up to 140 in the time between the original question and the supplementary question, Mr Speaker. It just shows you how quickly this economy is moving.

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