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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 1 Hansard (15 February) . . Page.. 36 ..

Mr Kaine: That is what your own budget says.

MR HUMPHRIES: No, it does not, Mr Speaker. The appropriation occurs through the Appropriation Act. The Appropriation Act appropriates money to the Department of Education and Community Services, not to the CDRL. We cannot appropriate money - - -

Mr Kaine: Well, that is what your budget says - for the CDRL, Minister. Is that not what you meant when you put it up?

MR HUMPHRIES: No, that is an explanatory note to the budget. The budget itself is the - - -

Mr Kaine: Another bodgie budget.

Mr Quinlan: It is a non-core budget, is it?

MR SPEAKER: Settle down, please.

MR HUMPHRIES: The appropriation is the Appropriation Act. The Appropriation Act appropriates money for the purposes of the Department of Education, as described more particularly in the documents as money appropriated for the CDRL for upgrading of the facilities at Rugby League Park. However, Mr Speaker, those facilities are now not possible to be upgraded because of the breakdown in the relationship between the Raiders and the CDRL. Appropriately, Mr Speaker, the Government will move to ensure that money is spent on the purpose for which it was intended and, if you like, appropriated - the improvement of facilities to service the Canberra Raiders.

Members have a quibble with the idea of sponsoring a very important economic engine in town, the Canberra Raiders. That is fine; they can put that on the record. I know that the Raiders have appreciated the cooperation between the ACT Government, between Mr Stefaniak's department, and themselves. In fact, Mr Ayers, the chairman of the Raiders, said in a press statement last week that the Raiders were indebted to the Carnell Government and the CIT administration for making the project at Bruce a possibility.

MR HIRD: My question is to the Treasurer, and I refer to a statement made by our learned colleague Mr Bill Wood after the Government's release of the draft budget estimates in January. I understand that Mr Wood told the ABC radio morning show on, I think, 18 January, if my memory serves me right, a Tuesday, that the former Follett Labor Government gave out more details than are in this draft budget. Is that your recollection, Mr Treasurer?

MR SPEAKER: Just a moment.

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