Page 2609 - Week 07 - Tuesday, 5 June 2012
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This Budget sets out a measured and responsible plan to return to surplus.
It focuses on delivering the frontline services and infrastructure our community deserves and expects.
It lays out a path for vital, long-term reform of our taxation system, and provides innovative measures to support our private sector.
And it creates the conditions and lays the foundation for an even more prosperous, fair and sustainable city as we head into our second century.
Budget principles
At its core, this is a budget about fairness.
It is a reform budget.
It sets out a clear vision for the future.
This Government will never shy away from explaining and promoting its values and its plans for the future.
ACT Labor’s vision is to ensure that the ACT remains the happiest, healthiest, most sustainable community in Australia, with the country’s highest standard of living.
Labor will always put the community first.
We will always balance economic ends with social goals, rather than viewing economic goals as an end in themselves.
Labor will always look after those who need a hand up, or who are doing it tough, through appropriate and targeted assistance.
Supporting the most vulnerable in the community is in our DNA.
Labor will continue investing in the frontline services our community deserves and expects. We have delivered record investment in schools, hospitals and community services. And record delivery of infrastructure.
Opposition members interjecting—
MR SPEAKER: One moment, Mr Barr. Members, I do understand that it is the practice of this place that the appropriation bill is heard in silence. I believe that to be the tradition, and I think it would be helpful if we could hear the Treasurer clearly.
Mrs Dunne: I ask you to reflect back on the address-in-reply to the appropriation bill last year, Mr Speaker, where Mr Seselja was heckled and interjected against most of the time. I would like you to keep that in mind when you reflect on the level of interjection through this bill.
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