Page 3049 - Week 08 - Thursday, 25 June 2009

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Part 1.7 Treasury

15 minutes

Part 1.8 Home Loan Portfolio

15 minutes

Part 1.9 Superannuation Provision Account

15 minutes

Part 1.10 Territory Banking Account

15 minutes

Part 1.11 ACT Health

40 minutes

Part 1.12 Department of Disability, Housing and Community Services

40 minutes

Part 1.13 Housing ACT

40 minutes

Part 1.14 Department of Justice and Community Safety

40 minutes

Part 1.15 Department of the Environment, Climate Change, Energy and Water

40 minutes

Part 1.16 Department of Education and Training

40 minutes

Part 1.17 ACT Planning and Land Authority

40 minutes

Part 1.18 Gambling and Racing Commission

15 minutes

Part 1.19 ACT Insurance Authority

15 minutes

Part 1.20 ACTEW Corporation

15 minutes

Part 1.21Canberra Institute of Technology

15 minutes

Part 1.22 Cultural Facilities Corporation

15 minutes

Part.1.23 ICRC

15 minutes

Part 1.24 Legal Aid Commission (ACT)

15 minutes

Part 1.25 Public Trustee for the ACT

15 minutes

Total appropriated to Agencies

15 minutes

Part 1.26 Treasurer’s Advance

15 minutes

Remainder of the Bill

15 minutes

It is incumbent on me to reply briefly to the assertions made by the opposition. It has been quite clear that it is now a standard Liberal tactic to delay and string out the budget debate so as to put the government in a situation where it has no choice but to try to expedite the passage of the budget. It has been a very clear strategy and that is confirmed by the Liberal Party’s response to the proposal tonight which was, “We knew you were going to do this,” and that provides them with the opportunity to then accuse the government of trying to gag the debate.

All I would say is that, if you cannot say it in 17 hours, you are not doing your job as an opposition. If you cannot say it in 17 hours, which is how much time you have, you are not doing your job as an opposition. I commend the motion to the Assembly.

MRS DUNNE (Ginninderra) (8.02): Some of the times put forward in this motion are entirely disproportionate. The thing is that, as Mr Seselja said, if there had been a rational approach and some leadership from the leader of the house, we could have perhaps come up with a schedule which reflected the amount of the appropriation. In this guise, we have the same amount of time devoted to a $20 million-odd appropriation in the Department of the Environment, Climate Change, Energy and Water as we do for the department of health with nearly a billion dollars.

If there had been some discussions and some looking back at what happened, you would find that there are a lot of small items, like the home loan portfolio, the territory banking account, that do not take a substantial amount of time. If the manager of government business had really intended to have a proper debate on this, this could have been dealt with last week, two weeks ago. We could have come up

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