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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1999 Week 8 Hansard (24 August) . . Page.. 2294 ..

MR SPEAKER: I understand that the person concerned has been named. Is that correct?

Mr Corbell: I did not name this individual.

Mr Moore: You did.

Mr Corbell: I have never named the individual.

Mr Moore: It was in the paper.

MS CARNELL: Mr Speaker, it is absolutely atrocious behaviour. The reason it is atrocious behaviour is that Mr Corbell was wrong. He was wrong. All he needed to have done was get in touch with the Commissioner for Public Administration or me or the - - -

Mr Stanhope: She has gone.

Mr Corbell: Does she still exist?

MS CARNELL: We do have one, Mr Speaker.

Mr Stanhope: You made her redundant.

Mr Quinlan: Has she got a dog?

MR SPEAKER: Just a moment, please. Interjections will cease, thank you. This is an important point.

MS CARNELL: It is. Mr Speaker, first, I am advised that Mr Corbell is relying on a set of 1994 conditions that applied to SES officers before the introduction of executive contract arrangements in early 1996.

Mr Corbell: They were the relevant standard at the time.

MS CARNELL: Mr Corbell has been interjecting constantly, Mr Speaker.

MR SPEAKER: Yes, indeed he has, and I am getting very tired of it. I am sure you are.

MS CARNELL: Secondly, Mr Speaker, it appears that Mr Corbell has conveniently placed his own interpretations on those provisions by suggesting that the completion of a fixed term arrangement or term transfer can only be linked to the original period of the arrangement. I am advised, and I say it again, that even under the out-of-date provisions he quotes it was common personnel practice to provide those benefits when an arrangement was reached for termination for any reason, which was a common occurrence in these circumstances, particularly with the Commonwealth under the old Commonwealth government provisions.

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