Page 3030 - Week 10 - Wednesday, 14 August 2013
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Dr Bourke and Mr Gentleman recommend the ACT Government investigate support for accommodation programs for at risk LGBTI people.
It is the same recommendation. In one they use the acronym and in the other they did not. Biting analysis! I will continue to go through this report, but there are literally dozens of recommendations that are duplicated. Do members recall Mr Barr saying, “This is worst estimates report ever.” Remember that, Mr Barr? Did you read the dissenting report? Did you feel when you were reading it that, “This sounds a bit familiar, doesn’t it?” Did you notice that the recommendations were duplicated, that many of the 575 recommendations were just the same recommendations—
MR ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Mr Doszpot): Mr Hanson, please refer your comments through the chair.
MR HANSON: My apologies, Mr Assistant Speaker. I refer to page 8 where literally, half the page of the recommendations are just duplicates of each other. I do not know who did the cut and paste job, but there are pages and pages commending the government, congratulating the government. It goes on and on about what a wonderfully good job the government is doing. It is so good that at recommendation 133 Dr Bourke and Mr Gentleman:
… note the small increase in ACT government fees so Sport and Recreation can ensure the highest quality of facilities.
So they are saying, “Well done for putting the fees up. Well done! That is fantastic that the government put the fees up.” They should be congratulated for everything, including putting the fees up. Let me just go through the pages and pages and pages of commending the government in this insightful review. The report states:
Dr Bourke and Mr Gentleman recommend the ACT Government emergency hospital services be commended for leading the country in consumer satisfaction.
That is an interesting view of the emergency department and the people who are waiting there for hours. There are more duplicate recommendations. They go on and on. Let us have a look at this one. Recommendation 395, I would have to say, is my favourite, Mr Assistant Speaker. You might want to listen in to this one. This only appeared once; they did not duplicate this one. I think it was so insightful it only needed to be said once:
Dr Bourke and Mr Gentleman note the ACT Government’s provision of assessment tools … Dr Bourke and Mr Gentleman recommend the ACT
That is it. That is the recommendation: “Dr Bourke and Mr Gentleman recommend the ACT.” They do. They recommend the ACT. I am not sure who they recommend it to, but they recommend it. I think we could probably support that recommendation. They recommend the ACT.
Mr Barr interjecting—
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