Page 3970 - Week 09 - Wednesday, 25 August 2010
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community’s confidence in government and public institutions unless the business of those institutions is conducted in the most open manner possible.” Basically that is a critique of his own government and shows the lack of confidence that this community is currently experiencing in relation to the Gallagher-Stanhope government.
As an aside, let me say that I met a staff member at a club last night. I was speaking at an engagement and I met a staff member there. She said, “You are Jeremy Hanson, aren’t you?” I said, “Yes.” She said, “Thank you very much for saving Clare Holland House.” I kid you not. It was “thank you”. I had never met her before. She said, “Is that who you are?” She said, “Thank you.” She said, “I have seen you before at Palliative Care Society meetings.” She had been a staff member at Clare Holland House and now is a volunteer. She thanked me and the opposition for preventing the sale of Clare Holland House. I just give that as a little aside.
Mr Stanhope also said in 2001:
We will try not to make mistakes, and if we do, we will be open about them.
I raised that one before. I challenge Mr Stanhope to outline in the Assembly any mistake that this government has made in the last nine years. He said in 2001 that he would be open about them. I am still waiting to hear an admission from Mr Stanhope or Ms Gallagher that they made any mistakes. When they said there were no problems in obstetrics and it turned out that there were, was that a mistake? Clearly not. The cover-up about the bush healing farm—was that a mistake? Clearly not. The mistakes with Calvary? No; nothing to see there. Again, we see the contradictions.
I will save the best until last, because we are talking about the release of documents. We are being denied them under the guise of commercial in confidence. Mr Stanhope said:
Under Labor, the ACT Government and its agencies will restrict the use of commercial confidentiality to the narrowest possible application.
You like this one, don’t you, Andrew?
Mr Barr: Look at me. Go back and look at the horse. Look at me. It is an Old Spice ad.
MR HANSON: I am not sure what you are on over there. I know that Jon Stanhope is on valium, because he certainly settled down over dinner time, but I am not quite sure what drugs you are taking, Mr Barr.
Mr Barr: Have you seen the Old Spice ads?
MR HANSON: You probably have it on repeat, mate. I will start again. He said:
Under Labor, the ACT Government and its agencies will restrict the use of commercial confidentiality to the narrowest possible application. Labor accepts that there are exceptional occasions when some commercial arrangements between Government and the private sector must remain confidential.
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