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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 13 Hansard (2 December) . . Page.. 4277 ..

MR STEFANIAK: Like I said, Mr Osborne, that money goes into a whole lot of different things - education and training and a number of other services as well. Like my colleagues here generally, we will certainly be reviewing the way we do business here, to ensure that we can make it as efficient as possible and get costs down generally right across the board wherever possible. That makes us quite different from the lot over the way there if they happen to get the reins of government in February 1998, Mr Osborne. Certainly, in terms of reviewing those types of expenditures, yes, I will certainly be reviewing them to see whether we can get those costs down. We provide a lot of service to a lot of people. If some people opposite did not ask so many silly questions, that might assist as well. There are a number of factors there that - - -

Mr Osborne: Well, why bother?

MR STEFANIAK: Yes.

MR CORBELL: I wish I had a question for Mr Stefaniak, but I do not. My question is to the Chief Minister. Chief Minister, I refer to your comments at the Property Council conference last Friday when you described - - -

Mrs Carnell: The ones I did not make.

MR CORBELL: Oh, you did not make them now?

MR SPEAKER: Order!

MR CORBELL: I think the Chief Minister had better be careful not to mislead the house, because she did make these comments.

MR SPEAKER: One has difficulty in hearing - - -

MR CORBELL: You described the recession in Canberra as "the transition that we had to have". Yes, you should lower your head, Chief Minister. Is the present crisis in the tourism industry the transition we just had to have? Chief Minister, are falling visitor figures and tourism takings for four quarters the transition we had to have?

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