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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1999 Week 7 Hansard (1 July) . . Page.. 2076 ..

Mr Stanhope: We agreed to two speakers, Gary.

MR HUMPHRIES: Okay. We are having two speakers as well.

Mr Stanhope: So I noticed, and we are quite happy with that.

MR HUMPHRIES: I am glad to see that, Mr Stanhope. I am very happy that you are happy.

MR TEMPORARY DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order! The Chair is unhappy. Mr Humphries has the call.

MR HUMPHRIES: I am glad that someone is not happy in this place. On Mr Kaine's point, first of all: The amount of the loan, with respect, is relatively immaterial. The Government will appropriate a certain amount. It may spend that amount; it may not spend that amount. It depends to some extent on the course of the particular project. The important point as far as the Assembly is concerned is the appropriation of an amount to cover what the Government anticipates will be the cost of the project. What is important with respect to what Mr Kaine had to say is what the money is spent on, not how much money exactly is being appropriated. There were provisions in the Financial Management Act to vary the appropriation according to the amount that was actually being spent. As far as what the money is being spent on is concerned, the Government has tabled these invoices, so the Assembly knows what - - -

Mr Stanhope: When? When?

MR HUMPHRIES: You have got them already. You claim that you have got those things because you said yesterday that you had read those documents.

Mr Stanhope: That is the lot, is it? That is all, is it? How much did you leave out?

MR HUMPHRIES: We have had comment from Mr Stanhope about the paucity of information concerning Bruce Stadium - the paucity of information. For the last two days - - -

Mr Stanhope: Is it $44m?

MR HUMPHRIES: For the last two days the table on the side of the Assembly was groaning under the weight of documentation the Government had tabled in the last few weeks on this matter. It was positively groaning. I thought the table was going to collapse under the weight of all the documents that had been loaded on top of it.

Mr Stanhope: Has it got the Prime Minister's letter in it?

MR HUMPHRIES: I had never seen so many documents on the table. Yet those opposite have the gall to refer to a paucity of information about Bruce Stadium.

Mr Stanhope: Is the Prime Minister's letter there? Where is the Prime Minister's letter?

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