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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2003 Week 10 Hansard (23 September) . . Page.. 3563 ..

Mr Stefaniak: Chris Peters was not too happy today!

MR STANHOPE: If Chris Peters listens to the ABC transcript, then I can understand that he would not be too happy with the arrant nonsense he spoke about the industrial manslaughter legislation on the ABC. In fact, Chris Peters should hang his head in shame!

I hope he is not happy; I hope he is not happy with his performance; I hope he is not happy with what he said; I hope he is not happy when he assesses the level of intellectual dishonesty that was part and parcel of the case he put this morning on the ABC. Let us hope Chris Peters is not very happy today- he has no right to be happy. He should hang his head in shame at the lack of integrity he showed in his assault on that piece of legislation.

He is also out of step with the rest of business. The Yellow Pages Business Index shows us that, in this report. Add that to the reports included in today's Canberra Times. We go to this article in the Canberra Times of 18 September-that is last week-by Peter Clack, entitled "ACT commercial property buoyant."It says:

It continues to say that the Australian Property Institute has published the results of its six-monthly property directions survey, which shows overwhelming industry confidence in the growth potential of the property market. It says that the Institute's New South Wales president, John Sheehan, said Canberra had the highest results for prime and A grade commercial property in the nation.

That is what the property owners of Canberra think. Here we have small and medium enterprises. Here we have the high end, A grade property owners, and this is what they think of Canberra. They are not interested in talking the economy down, like the Liberals; and they are not interested, like the Leader of the Opposition and the other Liberals over here, in trashing the ACT economy.

Business people in Canberra are happy to go to the Canberra Times and put out their press releases. They are happy to have them reported honestly in the form of a Yellow Pages index, in the form of the property market, or in the form of all these other reports that have been released as late as today. They say how buoyant the economy is, and how well the government is going.

We have this report of 2 September, which is this month, from somebody who the Liberals did not hesitate to put the boot into-certainly around his appointment to the Bushfire Recovery Task Force-and that is Terry Snow from the Canberra Airport. We all remember that disgraceful episode-the way the Liberals put the boot into Mr Snow, in relation to attitudes he then took.

Mrs Dunne: I wish to raise a point of order. This is the umpteenth time the Chief Minister has peddled the misinformation that this opposition in some way denigrated the

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