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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 13 Hansard (3 December) . . Page.. 4437 ..

MRS CARNELL (continuing):

We have a lot of extraordinarily capable people working very hard at Canberra Hospital, and I think it is very appropriate that the people of Canberra should understand a little more about what is happening at their hospital. I certainly did make it very clear that, taking into account the proximity to the election, there should be no reference whatsoever to me or to the Government in any terms, because this was something from the hospital to the people who use their hospital. I think it is very appropriate.

MR SPEAKER: Do you have a supplementary question, Mr Corbell?

MR CORBELL: Yes, Mr Speaker. Can I ask, first of all, Chief Minister: Does the $12,000 include the placement cost for the supplement?

Mrs Carnell: I understand so.

MR CORBELL: Okay, it does. Chief Minister, in December 1994, your now deputy, Mr Humphries, was outraged about a leaflet that went into ACT households with a photograph of the then Chief Minister and the then Deputy Chief Minister. In fact, he was so outraged that the man who is now Deputy Chief Minister announced that he would ban such material in the last six months before an election. I quote from the Canberra Times of 11 January 1995:

Under our plan advertising featuring photos, statements and/or signatures of politicians paid for by ACT Government departments or agencies will not be permitted during the late life of the Parliament.

My supplementary question is: Where is the promised legislation? Why did Deputy Chief Minister Gary Humphries's picture feature prominently on page 3 of this article, but not yours?

MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Speaker, since this relates to me, may I answer this question?

Mr Corbell: No. The question was to the Chief Minister.

Mrs Carnell: I have handed it to Mr Humphries.

MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Corbell asked where the legislation is to effect the ban on the appearance of members of the Assembly in paid advertising before an election. I refer members to page 900 of the minutes which are probably on their desks at the moment, right in front of you. You will see three-quarters of the way down that page reference to Electoral Regulations which have been made. They have the effect of making that very ban that you refer to.

Mrs Carnell: So, he has done it.

MR HUMPHRIES: So, I have done it.

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