Page 914 - Week 03 - Tuesday, 29 March 2011
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MS BURCH: I can present a copy of the paper, but I have circulated it to members opposite.
MADAM ASSISTANT SPEAKER: You need to table it in the chamber.
MS BURCH: I present the following paper:
Bimberi Youth Justice Centre—Reviews into 5 February incident—Copy of statement by Minister.
MADAM ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Thank you, Ms Burch. Now would you like to move that the Assembly takes note?
MS BURCH: I move:
That the Assembly takes note of the paper.
MRS DUNNE (Ginninderra) (11.21): I draw all members’ attention once again to the fact that the minister did not provide members of the Assembly with a copy; a copy of the paper was not circulated by the attendants when the minister stood to make her comments. The same occurred with the comments made by the Chief Minister previously. The respective shadows have received it. It should not be my job, Madam Assistant Speaker, to provide my colleagues with a ministerial statement. It is the responsibility of the minister to ensure that the Assembly has copies of this. It should not be my responsibility to ensure that my colleagues have a copy of Minister Burch’s ministerial statement.
Mr Corbell: You had an advance copy.
MRS DUNNE: And my colleagues have a copy of it, but I do not know how many other members have a copy of it.
Mr Corbell: So what are you complaining about?
MRS DUNNE: It is not my job to do that. It is the minister’s job to ensure that, and to have a copy available for tabling so that the procedures of this place can work. What I am complaining about is that this minister is incompetent. She cannot get the forms of the house right any more than she can the administration of Bimberi youth detention centre.
The real issue here today is the litany, the absolute litany, of failure that we have seen by this minister, which has been confirmed by this statement. This statement confirms everything that the Canberra Liberals have been saying for months—more than a year—about what is happening at Bimberi.
What we now know is that this government built a $42 million facility and then put no thought into how it should be run. They have put no thought into how it should be run. The previous minister put no thought into how it should be run—all we wanted really
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