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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1998 Week 4 Hansard (25 June) . . Page.. 1099 ..

MR HUMPHRIES (continuing):

Mr Speaker, this is a budget which has worked to a theme, if you like. It is about preparing for the future. Perhaps the most important thing this budget does is address the operating loss and the unfunded superannuation liability - things that were run up badly by the former Labor governments. Mr Speaker, why do we care about those things? Why are they important? There is one very simple reason. Those things stand between us and a brighter future. Those things are a burden on our children. Those things stand in the way of our children enjoying the standard of living that we enjoy today. This Government is not prepared to let that happen. This Government's budget, therefore, for the first time addresses those issues in a serious way. Mr Speaker, I think we deserve to be congratulated for that, and I think the comments we have seen so far on this budget do basically that.

Question resolved in the affirmative.

Bill agreed to in principle.

MR HUMPHRIES (Attorney-General, Minister for Justice and Community Safety and Minister Assisting the Treasurer) (5.24): Mr Speaker, pursuant to standing order 174, I move:

That the Appropriation Bill 1998-99 be referred to the Select Committee on Estimates 1998-99.

Question resolved in the affirmative.

MR SPEAKER: I present, for the information of members, Auditor-General's Report No. 2 of 1998, entitled "Lease Variation Charges - Follow-up Review".

MR HUMPHRIES (Attorney-General, Minister for Justice and Community Safety and Minister Assisting the Treasurer) (5.25): Mr Speaker, I ask for leave to move a motion authorising the publication of the Auditor-General's report.

Leave granted.

MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Speaker, I move:

That the Assembly authorises the publication of the Auditor-General's Report No. 2 of 1998.

Question resolved in the affirmative.

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