Page 850 - Week 04 - Wednesday, 2 May 2007
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MRS BURKE: Thank you very much. I move:
Add, after paragraph (2) (b):
“(c) table the 2002 Concession Program Review Report by cob today.”.
MR TEMPORARY DEPUTY SPEAKER: The question is that Mrs Burke’s amendment to Ms Gallagher’s amendment be agreed to.
MRS BURKE: I am moving this because I am asking that the government table—
MR TEMPORARY DEPUTY SPEAKER: Mrs Burke, you have already spoken.
MRS BURKE: I am speaking to the amendment that has been circulated in my name that I foreshadowed in my speech before—
MR TEMPORARY DEPUTY SPEAKER: Mrs Burke, you have already spoken and moved the amendment.
MRS BURKE: I seek leave to speak to the amendment. I thought I had asked to do that. I apologise to members.
Leave granted.
MRS BURKE: Thank you. The amendment is that the government table the 2002 concession program review report by the close of business today. Ms Gallagher has said that the report was there, that they have looked at it, that they have seen it but that they do not like what they read. I think we have a right to ask for that report to be tabled so that we can see what you did not like. You did not give members of this Assembly the opportunity to have a look for themselves. I think Dr Foskey will be quite interested in that as well. If there are things that we need to be discussing as an Assembly, then that is what we should be doing. But I do not think you should be hiding information that was asked for in a review conducted with taxpayers’ money. Now you are going to sit on the evidence. So I am calling and asking for the review to be tabled by the close of business today.
MS GALLAGHER (Molonglo—Minister for Health, Minister for Children and Young People, Minister for Disability and Community Services, Minister for Women) (4.01): It always surprises me when the warm and fuzzy member of the opposition gets so nasty in her speeches. We are all friends and we all get on and then, the minute there is an opportunity, it is straight in for the kill. But if Mrs Burke had listened to what I had said she would know that what I was trying to do was to be quite helpful and progress a very important matter which Dr Foskey had raised through the Assembly, and offer a way which met Dr Foskey’s time frame.
I am not going to table the report. There are other avenues open to you, should you wish to pursue them. The reason I am not going to table it is that you lot are a social menace and what you will do with that report is go and put fear and loathing in the community around concessions.
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