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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 4 Hansard (29 March) . . Page.. 1045 ..
MR HUMPHRIES (continuing):
recommended in his committee's report that we should put some more money aside, pursuant to the resolution of the Assembly. Heaven help us if we disobeyed the Assembly's rules. Heaven help us if we just ignored what the Assembly had instructed us to do.
Mr Corbell: I would like to hear you put that argument to the people in Gungahlin. I would love you to wander out to Amaroo and say, "We are not going to pay GST compensation".
MR SPEAKER: Order! You will not be making any more statements if you keep interjecting, Mr Corbell.
MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Speaker, if they had wanted us to spend more money in the coming financial year on a first home owners scheme than was provided for in the way we outlined very clearly, why did they not - - -
Mr Quinlan: It is a budget initiative, Gary.
MR HUMPHRIES: Exactly. Why was it not put down in the draft budget recommendations of Mr Corbell's committee? Why was it not there, Mr Speaker? It seems logical to me. I do not know what I am missing. If Mr Corbell wanted it, he should have asked for it.
MR RUGENDYKE: Chief Minister, the December 1999 issue of Business Update by Project 2000 states that the first of the pre-2000 Olympic Games activities for Canberra was the welcoming of the 35-person Finnish team - track and field, judo, medical staff and officials - which was here in residence for about three weeks in December 1999. It also stated that there will be many other Olympic teams coming to Canberra and that the ACT will be providing Olympic banners and street plantings along major arterial routes, creating an exciting Olympic look for Canberra. With the Olympic Games just six months away, I am interested in obtaining details on the Olympic athletes and teams that will be using Canberra as a base to prepare for their respective sports. How many teams have been secured? Which countries are they from? How many athletes are involved? How long will they be here? What has it cost to get them here? Also, by how much is the final figure different, above or below, from the Government's target?
Mr Berry: And what are their names and addresses.
MR SPEAKER: The question was getting to be too long.
MS CARNELL
: Mr Speaker, the middle names of the people would go down well, too. The Brazilian Olympic Committee, the French Olympic Committee and the Netherlands Olympic Committee have confirmed their intention to bring their teams, in whole or
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