Page 4441 - Week 10 - Thursday, 23 September 2010
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him, as I have the Prime Minister, that it is a matter of significant concern to me, the government, the Assembly and, indeed Canberra. In my letter to Mr Crean today, I have asked Mr Crean to meet with me in November so that I might raise the issue with him personally.
MR SPEAKER: A supplementary, Ms Hunter?
MS HUNTER: Yes, Mr Speaker. Chief Minister, have you had any feedback from the Prime Minister, the Prime Minister’s office or any other federal minister on the matter of the review?
MR STANHOPE: I will check and confirm this, Ms Hunter, but I believe my office has had contact with then Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s office in response to my letter following the Assembly motion in which information was conveyed to the effect that the commonwealth would not be initiating a review of the self-government act. But I would prefer to confirm the details of that.
The point I make is that the motion passed by this Assembly, which was conveyed to the commonwealth, did not elicit the response which the Assembly would have hoped. But I will have to check, Ms Hunter, on the basis on which that information was conveyed to the government. I am happy to do that. But suffice to say that the request for a review by the commonwealth of the self-government act was not successful.
MS LE COUTEUR: A supplementary, Mr Speaker.
MR SPEAKER: Yes, Ms Le Couteur.
MS LE COUTEUR: When do you expect a formal response from the Prime Minister? I think you have indicated there has not been a formal response yet.
MR STANHOPE: Thank you, Ms Le Couteur. I think that particular issue that you raise goes to the point that I have just made. I will have to check with my office about the nature of the response which was conveyed by the commonwealth to my office, who it is from, whether or not I might regard that as a formal response. It may be that was a formal response. It is just that I am not quite sure of the mechanics of it. I will have to take advice. Certainly the information has been conveyed to the government—I am not quite sure of, that is the issue I am taking on notice, the avenues of conveyance—that the commonwealth would not be conducting a review of the self-government act.
MS BRESNAN: A supplementary, Mr Speaker.
MR SPEAKER: Yes, Ms Bresnan.
MS BRESNAN: Thank you, Mr Speaker. Chief Minister, when do you think you will be in a position to report to the Assembly on the matter?
MR STANHOPE: Over and above the report I am giving now and my letter to Ms Hunter, I would be more than happy, Ms Bresnan, to report to the Assembly as
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