Page 3679 - Week 12 - Wednesday, 21 November 2007
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Mr Hargreaves: Mr Speaker, would you please deal harshly with vexatious points of order?
MR SPEAKER: The fact is that this motion is about the commonwealth government’s effect on the ACT, and Senator Humphries is part of that government.
MR STANHOPE: Land development is an economic issue, and it is relevant that we talk about the way in which the Liberal Party dealt with these issues. If you want and the people of Canberra want an understanding, explanation or expose on how Liberal governments, and most particularly Mr Humphries, deal with issues of land development, get out the report on the land development scandal at Hall-Kinlyside, under Gary Humphries most specifically.
This is, of course, not because time does not allow us to consider the relationship and most particularly the involvement of our commonwealth Liberal Party representative Gary Humphries in issues like “feel the power”. How do we ever forget the Impulse Airlines incentive package of $10 million which—
Mr Gentleman: “Feel the power”?
MR STANHOPE: “Feel the power”, Impulse Airlines. And one of the most intriguing stories under Gary Humphries and Bill Stefaniak—
Mr Hargreaves: A mystery.
MR STANHOPE: It was a mystery that the Auditor-General was unable to deal with because, surprisingly, when he came to investigate the relationship developed by Gary Humphries and Kate Carnell with Mr Adler, the principal of FAI and of some notoriety these days, in relation to FAI House and its rental to the ACT government and supposed relationships between Mr Adler, FAI and the Rally of Canberra, which many believe were actually caught up in the very, very generous and, in the view of the Auditor-General, inappropriate rental arrangements that were made for FAI House, the nature of that relationship between Adler and Gary Humphries and other members of the government has never been revealed because, as the Auditor-General reported, there is not a single paper in existence—
Mr Hargreaves: Their shredder is full, though.
MR STANHOPE: He did not exactly suggest that a shredder had been employed but, of course, it is the implication. The Auditor-General’s consternation at the fact that there is not a single piece of paper on the files to explain the basis of the decisions that were taken in relation to that is in his report. Hence, the Auditor-General reports no capacity to draw any conclusions about the relationship between FAI House and the rally.
MR SPEAKER: The member’s time has expired. Have you circulated an amendment?
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