Page 2638 - Week 07 - Tuesday, 28 June 2011
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In terms of community cabinet, we have community cabinet in the community now and we obviously have individual meetings with members of the community. We will monitor how the virtual community cabinet goes and whether Twitter is the most effective mechanism. Obviously there will be greater opportunity with different forums to look at this and how we expand this agenda going forward, but the principles are that we would like to share as much information as we can early on with the community and make them aware of the issues that the cabinet is considering even if no final decisions have been taken—and encourage a whole group within our community who may not come to public meetings or community cabinets, or find it confronting to get involved in the work of government, to offer them as many avenues as possible.
MR HANSON: A supplementary, Mr Speaker.
MR SPEAKER: Yes, Mr Hanson.
MR HANSON: Chief Minister, if your government is going to be more open and accountable, why did you vote against an Assembly inquiry last week into the termination of a former superintendent of the AMC, Mr Doug Buchanan?
MS GALLAGHER: Providing an open government agenda does not mean that it is a free-for-all into every area. Looking into HR matters, which are often sensitive, difficult and complex, does not necessarily mean that we are creating an open government framework for engagement. I think it does present the opposition with a bit of a challenge to be mature—
Mr Hanson interjecting—
MS GALLAGHER: about how we deal with the open government message going forward.
Mr Hargreaves: A point of order, Mr Speaker.
MR SPEAKER: Stop the clocks. Yes, Mr Hargreaves.
Mr Hargreaves: I understand that the interjection from Mr Hanson, yet again calling the process of the Chief Minister a cover-up, is unparliamentary, and I would ask you to ask him to withdraw that, please.
MR SPEAKER: There is no point of order. I think this one sits within the bounds of the robust nature of this place.
MS GALLAGHER: Mr Speaker, I think the challenge is for the opposition to be mature about this work as it goes forward and to—
Mr Seselja: It is a cover-up though, isn’t it?
MS GALLAGHER: Whenever the opposition are not going to get their way, I can hear it now—it is going to be a cover-up by this government. And that is simply
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