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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2004 Week 10 Hansard (Wednesday, 25 August 2004) . . Page.. 4179 ..

Mrs Dunne: How many aged facility places did you stop while you were in opposition? I remember one in Kaleen that you personally stopped. Who did the work to change the—

MR STANHOPE: How many direct grants of land were there by the Liberal Party in the last term of government?

Mrs Dunne: What about Kaleen? Villaggio Sant’Antonio. Calvary we started.

MR STANHOPE: How many direct grants of land for aged care beds? How many direct grants of land in the last term of government for aged care beds? None—not a single direct grant of land—

Mrs Dunne: Not true. Not true.

MR STANHOPE: Not for aged care beds. There were a few for people living in units. Aged care beds? Direct grants of land by the Liberal Party in a four-year term? Direct grants of land for aged care beds in a four-year term? Name them.

Mrs Dunne: Villaggio Sant’Antonio.

MR STANHOPE: No, no—not for aged care beds you did not. (Extension of time granted) So there we have it: 700 public houses sold and no support for aged care beds. We then go to some of the gross maladministration—issues that have been touched on. We need to dwell on this in the context of a comparison. That is what this motion seeks.

This motion seeks to draw a comparison between this government—its style and what it has delivered—and the previous government. That is what you have to do. You have to make the comparison. So you do have to talk about the hospital implosion to make the comparison and the 14 pages of Auditor-General reports on that botched mess. You do have to talk about Bruce Stadium—the $12 million proposal fraught with illegalities and bad decisions and no process that blew out to $84 million.

You do have to talk about these things. You do have to talk about the decision making that affected the hospital implosion. You do have to talk about the Bruce Stadium fiasco. You do have to talk about the secret under-the-table deals such as those at Hall-Kinleyside. You do need to talk about Fujitsu. You do need to talk about the lease for FAI House.

You do need to talk about the secret parking deals at Manuka. You do need to talk about the secret, illegal overnight $9 million loan. You do need to talk about the nonsense of Feel the Power. You do need to talk about those fundamentally flawed processes that led to the hospital implosion and the 14 volumes of Auditor-General reports in relation to that.

You do need to talk about all these things. You do need to talk about the missed opportunities and chances in relation to business development incentives. You do need to go out and visit the Impulse hangar at the airport. You do need to go and visit the empty

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