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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 7 Hansard (28 June) . . Page.. 2178 ..
MR QUINLAN
(continuing):Bruce Stadium audit. We had a delay in a previous program for the performance audit side, but not compliance orders.
It is highly likely that the Auditor-General and his office will have learnt a great deal more about the operation of government and how things work around here by the single audit that he is conducting than he would have by the much shorter and briefer performance audits. We do hope that the Bruce Stadium audit report comes forward fairly quickly, but I think we can be reasonably confident that we will have a sharper and more informed and hopefully more cynical and less believing and accepting audit team under his command once the performance audit of Bruce Stadium has been completed.
MR HUMPHRIES
(Treasurer, Attorney-General and Minister for Justice and Community Safety) (5.05): I wish to make a brief comment. I am sure that the Auditor-General will appropriately draw to the attention of government any issues that arise with respect to resourcing of his function. I believe that the $909,000 provided for in this appropriation for the coming financial year will suffice, but, of course, we will deal with circumstances as they emerge.As to Bruce Stadium and the problems that Mr Berry and others have alluded to, I and I think 25,000 or so other people sat around Bruce Stadium a few weeks ago for the final of the Super 12 between the Brumbies and the Crusaders.
Mr Quinlan
: Did you go to the footy? How was it?MR HUMPHRIES
: I did. It was very good. I looked around the magnificent stadium which this government has been responsible for creating. I think there would be very few people in that place who would have wondered what the fuss about Bruce Stadium was all about. I think the words of Sir Christopher Wren spring to mind here. He has a simple monument to him in St Paul's Cathedral in London. It is a simple stone marking the place where he is buried. Among the few words on the epitaph are "If you seek his monument, look around you". Much the same could be said about this government or about the Chief Minister.Proposed expenditure agreed to.
Proposed expenditure-Part 3-Chief Minister's, $68,275,000 (net cost of outputs), $10,392,000 (capital injection) and $4,637,000 (payments on behalf of the territory), totalling $83,304,000.
MR QUINLAN
(5.08): Mr Speaker, $83.3 million is a lot of money for a department that does not really have a whole lot of practical responsibilities. Through the course of this year we saw a change in administrative orders. We saw the Chief Minister abdicate her role as Treasurer around about the time the heat went up on her monument at Bruce. Effectively, I think the Chief Minister's responsibilities are restricted to arts, tourism and general policy. That is about it, I think. At the same time we have seen more and more public servants migrating from the departments, with their individual responsibilities, through to the Chief Minister's Department.Ms Carnell
: No, I have less than I used to have.
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