Page 5586 - Week 15 - Wednesday, 9 December 2009
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Mr Stanhope: They have not recovered from advertising when you were a minister.
MR SMYTH: because we were making up for the $344 million operating loss that the ACT Labor government left us in 1995. In 2012 we will have to make up again for the millions of dollars of deficit—
Members interjecting—
MR SMYTH: that we will be in because of your mismanagement.
MADAM ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Mrs Dunne): Order, members! I cannot hear Mr Smyth.
MR SMYTH: The point here is this: if we are afraid to acknowledge that these messages are from the government in any way, shape or form—
Mr Stanhope: We still want to overcome the damage you did as a minister, mate.
MADAM ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Mr Stanhope!
MR SMYTH: In particular, what? Go for your life.
MADAM ASSISTANT SPEAKER: No, he will not go for his life, Mr Smyth.
MR SMYTH: But the problem here is—well, I hear Mr Corbell did not have an answer as to how many projects he delivered on time and on budget.
Mr Barr: The Assembly bouncer has spoken.
Mr Stanhope: Mr Hargreaves advises me he can recall a Brendan Smyth housing document with 13 photographs of the ministry.
MADAM ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Mr Stanhope, you can take the course you wish but at the moment you are not on your feet; so be quiet.
MR SMYTH: Table the document.
MADAM ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Mr Smyth, do not encourage him.
MR SMYTH: If you can find it, I would be surprised. It is interesting here that we are making it up on the other side of the chamber, Madam Assistant Speaker. They make the case. It is important that people trust messages from their government. If politicisation of the government message has been so bad under the administration of the Chief Minister that it is virtually worthless because people turn off—
Ms Porter: It is not about this government.
MR SMYTH: It is. It is, indeed, about this government. Of course, the warnings should be at the front and members should support the amendment.
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