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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2004 Week 07 Hansard (Tuesday, 29 June 2004) . . Page.. 2955 ..

MR QUINLAN: I do not, Mr Smyth. I am not in your league, Mr Smyth, in terms of your snide approach.

MR SPEAKER: Order! The Treasurer will direct his comments through the chair.

Opposition members interjecting.

MR SPEAKER: The opposition will stop interjecting.

MR QUINLAN: Look at the budget breakfast and the budget dinner that followed the presentation of this budget. What did you do after that? All you did was wax lyrical about me. You made a fool of yourself, but it didn’t work.

Mr Smyth: Yes, it did.

Mrs Burke: You are such a boy, Ted.

MR SPEAKER: Order! Treasurer, resume your seat.

MR QUINLAN: You look like a man of no substance.

MR SPEAKER: Order, Mr Quinlan, just resume your seat for a minute. Please direct your comments through the chair and the other side won’t be provoked. Those on the other side will please restrain themselves. We have a long way to go.

MR QUINLAN: Okay. I think that will do me. Thank you.

MR STANHOPE (Chief Minister, Attorney-General, Minister for Environment and Minister for Community Affairs) (9.37): I was listening to the debate and there were a number of points that I felt did require some response, but my colleague the Treasurer has responded and said many of the things that I had thought I might say in relation to issues around health. The thing that occurs to me most starkly in the comments that have been made in this debate is just how short the collective memory or the amnesia of the Liberal Party is. If one goes through point by point, item by item, the issues that have been raised in the debate—

MR SPEAKER: Order! The question has just been raised with me as to whether the Treasurer closes the debate. The answer is no because the periods are unspecified for the minister managing the bill.

MR STANHOPE: The Leader of the Opposition will come to grips with the standing orders eventually—if he gets to spend enough time in the place. Perhaps that is not all that certain either with just 3½ months to go to the election.

This collective amnesia, this capacity to forget what the Liberal Party bequeathed to the territory after seven years of government, is interesting. It was particularly interesting in the comments that the Liberal Party made that there was not a single mention of the Gallop inquiry or the state of disability services at the time of the changeover of the

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