Page 896 - Week 03 - Wednesday, 9 April 2014
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forward, that there is a good understanding of what it offers both from a business and an individual point of view, and that it is given the promotion and implementation that it needs.
We know that the community will embrace these digital opportunities in many different ways, probably ways that we cannot even imagine yet. That is part of the exciting task of ensuring that we have a good digital environment here in this city in which people are thinking of new ways to both improve services to the community and the government through the business sector and create new economic opportunities for our city.
I will be supporting the motion today. When it comes to Mr Doszpot’s amendment, I have had a close look at this. I think there is merit in having some accountability and some clear outlining of the process for that accountability. I have looked very closely at it and I have had some discussions with the Chief Minister’s office today. I think that the budget is not the right place for that sort of thing—it does not fit in the usual form of the budget—but I agree that there needs to be an enhanced level of accountability so that members can follow the progress of the implementation of this plan. I believe Mr Barr is going to move an amendment, and I will speak to that further once he has moved it.
MR HANSON (Molonglo—Leader of the Opposition) (5.50): I was not intending to speak to this motion but it seems extraordinary to me that, with respect to the great revolutionary advances that we are taking in the digital sphere within the ACT, Mr Rattenbury’s great plan is that it will allow us to sit at our computers to work out what night bin night is. I thought that bin night was the same every week. Bin night, certainly in my suburb, is the same night.
Mr Coe interjecting—
MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Mr Coe!
MR HANSON: What was the interjection? I must admit I did not hear it.
Mr Coe interjecting—
MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Mr Coe, your colleague is on his feet. Will you please be silent.
Mr Barr interjecting—
MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Mr Barr!
MR HANSON: Perhaps it is with a sense of irony that I get up to speak. But the minister for TAMS is saying that you have to sit at your computer in order to work out what night bin night is going to be because you do not remember that it is the same night every week and there is the challenge of looking out the window and seeing whether your neighbours are putting their bins out or not. If this is the quality
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