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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 1 Hansard (16 February) . . Page.. 186 ..
MR SMYTH (continuing):
Mr Hargreaves' own admission is that we issued only three defect notices that weekend. Is that not a validation that the people of Canberra are taking the safety of everybody on the road seriously by making sure that their vehicles are roadworthy? The vehicle inspectors are well qualified and have a lot of experience in what they do. Mr Hargreaves refuses to acknowledge that you can sometimes do something a little bit differently and a little bit better and often a whole lot more effectively and save some money at the same time. We are still trapped in the sixties with Jon Stanhope and his Labor team.
MR RUGENDYKE: My question is to the Minister for children, youth and family services, Mr Stefaniak. Minister, what strategies, including training and resourcing, have been put in place to prepare for the imminent application of the Children and Young People Bill, including the appropriate resourcing for the provision of therapeutic protection orders?
MR STEFANIAK: I thank the member for the question. Mr Rugendyke, I refer you back to the debate on the Children and Young People Bill. During that debate mention was made of the preparations for the introduction of that particular piece of legislation, which is due to come into force in a few months' time. In fact, a fair bit of training is already occurring. Groups are being organised, and as we speak training is going on in some of the offices to prepare people for the introduction of that actual legislation.
MR BERRY: My question is to the Chief Minister. A flyer distributed as an insert in the Canberra Times this morning advertises a forthcoming two-day conference on performance measures for policy advice. The conference promoters offer participants the opportunity to associate with Australia's and New Zealand's premier policy practitioners and to enjoy the benefits of their success. The Chief Minister is listed as a keynote speaker, although unfortunately incorrectly named as the Chief Minister and Treasurer. This probably sends a message that she is probably still hanging on to the Treasurer part a little bit. Never let it go. The Chief Minister is to address the conference on the topic "What am I looking for in policy advice?". Before you all jump up and say "political expediency", let me go on. According to the flyer, the Chief Minister - listen to this - will offer a unique perspective on how Ministers appraise policy advice and discuss the work undertaken in the ACT Chief Minister's Department regarding the development of standards with which to evaluate the quality of policy advice. Can the Chief Minister advise the Assembly which issues she will use as case studies? Will the Chief Minister include, for example, the fatal implosion at the Canberra Hospital which resulted in the death of one of our citizens or the failed rural residential development at Kinlyside? Would you use that one?
Mr Stanhope: Put that one in.
MR BERRY
: Put that one in. That would give them an example. These are really all what-not-to-dos, not what-to-dos. Will the Chief Minister include the failed attempt to sell ACTEW and all the bodgie information that went with it, or the illegal expenditure
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