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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 2 Hansard (29 February) . . Page.. 361 ..

Mr Speaker, you can trust this Government to handle these matters appropriately, to have regard to the interests of workers. It is not the sale of ACTEW. It is the entering into of a joint venture with AGL. Mr Berry, you have characterised everything from corporatisation through to the introduction of more commercial principles into ACT organisations as privatisation by stealth. You obviously have a very broad view of what privatisation is. Almost anything that looks vaguely related to the private sector is privatisation to you.

The fact is that we retain control of our assets in effective terms under this arrangement. It is not a sale. We will provide information to this Assembly to satisfy requirements of this Assembly to proceed with this important venture. We are prepared to put the information on the table. We are prepared to do so without charge. We are prepared to ensure that we are accountable and responsible for our actions. We will not hide, for example, behind the Freedom of Information Act to prevent disclosure or behind the commercial-in-confidence principles to hide the VITAB contract from the scrutiny of the ACT community.

Mr Moore: It is still secret.

MR HUMPHRIES: That document is still secret. It has still never been seen by the public of this Territory, Mr Berry. Why? Because it is commercial-in-confidence, Mr Berry told us at the time. Mr Speaker, I ask for leave to have the letter I have just read incorporated in Hansard.

Leave granted.

The letter read as follows:

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