Page 1080 - Week 03 - Wednesday, 30 March 2011
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Should the Board be supportive of this proposal, I propose—
not the Little Company of Mary; she has completely twisted it around—
that the LCMHC and the ACT Government enter into a Heads of Agreement. To enable further development of the proposal—
that being her proposal—
past the commencement of the Caretaker period, which takes effect from 12 September 2008, my preference—
the minister’s preference, not Little Company of Mary’s—
is that the Heads of Agreement be signed by that date.
She has said that in the Assembly twice. She has been given the opportunity to retract it and to say: “Yes, I got it wrong. Sorry about that. I got it wrong, I inadvertently misled the Assembly.” But twice she has said: “No. Little Company of Mary wanted it. They wanted a heads of agreement. Little Company of Mary wanted it done by a heads of agreement.” And this letter proves conclusively that that is not true.
I think what we are seeing is example on top of example on top of example of where this minister is misleading not only this Assembly but the public at large. So what I have called for in my motion is for the minister to be honest, for the minister to be accurate—when she provides her reports and her press releases and her forewords, to be honest and accurate with the public—and I do not think that is too much to ask.
MS GALLAGHER (Molonglo—Deputy Chief Minister, Treasurer, Minister for Health and Minister for Industrial Relations) (3.33): I note how Mr Hanson finished his address to the Assembly. I do not think that the government has any problem with agreeing that information to the public must be accurate. I think that is something that we should extend to all members of this place, because I do not think it is something that is observed in many of the media releases that I have seen issued from Mr Hanson.
The government will not be supporting this motion. I think it is interesting that Mr Hanson’s main gripe about this report seems to be the fact that he has had to read it. That seems to be the main problem, that he was not spoon fed every element of the information in this report, that lo and behold on a Friday Jeremy Hanson had to do some work. He had to read the report, a report where we, the government, issue all this information that is put on the website. There are links to the report provided. There is a media release alerting people to the fact that this report exists. Every quarterly report contains information where some indicators improve and some do not.
Mr Smyth: But you did not mention any of the ones that did not.
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