Page 2121 - Week 06 - Tuesday, 21 June 2011
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MS GALLAGHER: Actually, I have to do this now. I have got it in the wrong order. Thank you, Madam Assistant Speaker. I present the following papers:
Government priorities 2011-2012—Ministerial statement, 21 June 2011.
ACT Government Priorities 2011-2012.
I move:
That the Assembly takes note of the paper.
MR SESELJA (Molonglo—Leader of the Opposition) (4.15): I think the question that obviously the Chief Minister was asking herself was this: what do you do when you have got a government that for the last 10 years has simply failed to deliver? What do you do when you have got a government that has pushed up the cost of living, a government that simply cannot deliver infrastructure projects, a government that has failed to deliver the most basic of services to the community? What do you do? You declare the next year to be a year of decision and delivery.
I think, Madam Assistant Speaker, that we may have heard this before. We may have seen this approach somewhere before. We saw Julia Gillard, trying to wipe the slate clean for the past three years, say: “Now trust us. It is going to be a year of decision and delivery.” That is what Katy Gallagher is now asking us to do. She is asking us to ignore the last 10 years. She is asking us to ignore the last five years of her delivery in health, for instance, the last 10 years of this government’s delivery in housing affordability, in cost of living, in infrastructure delivery, in health care and in any range of other areas.
The way that they come up with this year of delivery and decision is to come up with, in many cases, a bunch of vague measures of achievement. She says here with a straight face, “These will be clearly identifiable measures of achievement.”
Members interjecting—
MADAM ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Order, members! Ms Gallagher was heard in silence.
MR SESELJA: Let us have a look at some of these clear measures of achievement. “Deliver service strategies for those with complex needs” is one. It is relatively vague. One of the measures of achievement is “participation in the federal 2011 tax summit”. There is the achievement. If they turn up to the summit, they will have achieved and ticked this box when it comes to taxation. “Completing the remission framework for lease variation charge by December 2011” is another. This is the legislation we are about to pass, and there will be a framework for it in six months. In six months time that will be an achievement.
There are other vague measures such as “increase in public perception of safety”, “improved governance of corrections services, including Alexander Maconochie Centre and Bimberi”. And of course there is the re-badge of things that were announced years ago like new real-time and bus facilities in operation in 2012. Where
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