Page 3566 - Week 10 - Tuesday, 25 August 2009
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This is a very proactive approach by me and by the Department of Territory and Municipal Services, with the full support of the department. There is an absolute determination to continue to deliver services to the high level that we currently do here in the ACT, accepting the enormous range of issues that Territory and Municipal Services deals with, and a determination to find answers, engage with the community and continue to provide those services, but certainly within budget. And we will.
MR SPEAKER: Is there a supplementary question?
MR SESELJA: Thank you, Mr Speaker. Minister, how can you continue to have confidence in your ministerial colleague John Hargreaves given his role as minister during the time covered by this review?
MR STANHOPE: I have full confidence in all of my ministers. This is a good government, and I think the extent to which it is a good government is reflected by the fact that we are now serving our third consecutive term in government—the first government since self-government to have that honour. In contrast, of course, the Liberal Party is serving its third consecutive period in opposition—the only party in the history of self-government to have that particular role, designation or critique passed on it by the people of the ACT. In fact, as we have said previously, Mr Smyth is—
Mr Hanson: Mr Speaker, I raise a point of order on relevance. A rehashing of electoral results going back for three terms is hardly relevant.
MR SPEAKER: Sorry, Mr Hanson; I have not given you the call yet. Mr Hanson, what is your point of order?
Mr Hanson: The point of order is on relevance, Mr Speaker. A rehashing of electoral results going back three terms is hardly relevant to the—
Members interjecting—
MR SPEAKER: Order! Mr Hanson has the call.
Mr Hanson: management of the minister’s portfolio.
MR SPEAKER: I think, given the political nature of the question, Mr Stanhope was invited to give a political answer.
MR STANHOPE: Thank you, Mr Speaker.
Mr Seselja: He doesn’t want to comment on John.
MR STANHOPE: Well, I will. I have just done it. I have full confidence in all of my ministers, and indeed in the government. The confidence that I have in my ministers is a confidence that is shared by the people of the ACT, in contradistinction, of course, to the confidence they have shown in the Liberal Party. What—five leaders in the last six years?
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