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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2003 Week 7 Hansard (24 June) . . Page.. 2393 ..
MRS BURKE
(continuing):It is absurd to say that you have a mandate to run a pet project in this way. The arrogance of this is really beyond comprehension.
Mr Stanhope
: How do you spell "human rights", Jacqui?MRS BURKE
: I cannot believe we have a Chief Minister who would do this. I guess this arrogance will be manifested at the ballot box at the next election. You will continue on this course at your peril. I really believe that a lot of the community will not stay with you if you continue in this manner. People want to have an input.Mr Stanhope
: Will you win a third time, do you think, Jacqui? Get in here on your merits?MRS BURKE
: This isn't about me. The Chief Minister keeps interjecting very rudely. He needs to stop and listen to the community. He needs to also know that there are many people against what he is trying to do, but he won't listen. This is typical of this government. They will not listen to the community, they are not listening to the community and they arrogantly push on with projects. They say, "We'll listen to you and then we'll do this anyway."Ministers stand up in this place and say, "Well, I've heard what you're saying but I'm not going to take a blind bit of notice of you."How audacious is that? It is absolutely ridiculous to fly in the face of the Canberra public in this way.Mr Stanhope
: It's like buying a can of VB from a scratchie winning.MRS BURKE
: The Chief Minister so childishly keeps interjecting. I have obviously hit a nerve-what a shame.Mr Stefaniak
: And he can't even get it right. It's two bottles of Tooheys, for goodness sake!MRS BURKE
: No, he can't get it right. It was two long necks, I think, Mr Stefaniak-let's get it right. I think he has worn that joke a little thin. However, what the Chief Minister is doing is not a joke. It is something that he will live to regret.MR PRATT
(11.16): Mr Temporary Deputy Speaker, I rise to pick up a couple of issues in the emergency services and police area. In regard to the emergency services part of this debate, I would congratulate the government for at long last moving on with the development of the computer aided dispatch, or CAD, concept. I certainly welcome and support the payment of $500,000 to the ambulance services for the new skills program. I also congratulate the government for the decision to do something about the Belconnen joint emergency centre. So there are a number of good things in this budget, but there are some areas that we need to comment on.Firstly, there are some problems with computer aided dispatch in respect of command and control. The genesis of this problem goes back to 1999-2000 where, in anticipation of Y2K, decisions were made to put this system into service. I am concerned that, although the tendering was completed in June of 2002, it has taken to
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