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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2002 Week 10 Hansard (27 August) . . Page.. 2854 ..

MR STANHOPE: No, you weren't.

Mr Humphries: Actually, we were. You and I personally, the last opinion poll.

MR STANHOPE: The last opinion poll, the one that counts, was the ballot.

MR SPEAKER: Order, members! Could you focus on relevance?

Mr Humphries: And I got more votes than you.

MR STANHOPE: You did not get a higher percentage vote than I got. You had more electors.

Mr Humphries: Oh, the percentage!

MR STANHOPE: There are 30,000 more electors in Molonglo. You got more votes than I did and you are therefore more popular! Take a look at the percentages, Mr Humphries.

MR SPEAKER: Order! Chief Minister, can we just focus on having a relevant debate?

Mr Smyth: He is embarrassed.

MR STANHOPE: I am not embarrassed about the shenanigans in your party room and whether Mrs Cross or you will get to Mr Humphries first.

Mr Humphries: Is that relevant, Mr Speaker?

MR SPEAKER: Nobody seems to be paying much attention to relevance.

MR STANHOPE: I think that Mr Stefaniak is the dark horse in the field. Mr Stefaniak has a couple of numbers there. The loyal Mr Cornwell is sitting behind him. Mr Pratt is a waiverer. We know about Mrs Cross. We wait with great interest. An enormous amount of work has been done-

MR SPEAKER: I am waiting for somebody to come back to the amendment before us.

MR STANHOPE: I just have. An enormous amount of work has been done within the Chief Minister's Department and I would like to take the opportunity to publicly acknowledge the work that the Chief Minister's Department and all of its officers have done in the first nine to 10 months of the new government. The amount of work that has been done by officers has been simply staggering, has been of enormous quality and has been done with great diligence and professionalism. I think that this is an appropriate time to thank all officers in the ACT public service for the enormous amount of work that they have done in the development of the social plan and the economic white paper.

Mr Humphries: A legacy of the Liberal government.

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