Page 4112 - Week 13 - Wednesday, 26 November 2014
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The answer was:
We need to update the website.
Maybe you actually need to do the review, as was promised. So now it is 2015.
It is that attitude displayed that is really disappointing. It is very important that we get this right. If we do not get this right, you will never be able to measure the effect and you will not be able to work out whether or not we are doing right by the community.
Again, David Throsby, in his book, says:
Once any policy strategy or specific policy measure has been implemented, it is important for governments to know whether the desired objective has been achieved.
Well, apparently not. Apparently not, because we have no goals, we have no policy and we have no outcomes. I will just finish, Madam Deputy Speaker. I quote again:
Put in simple terms, the sequence begins with the articulation of objectives, proceeds through the choice of instruments and the business of their application, and culminates in the achievements or otherwise of desired outcomes that can be monitored such that lessons for further policy development can be drawn.
Nothing can be drawn from this because nothing has been measured. The minister will get up and no doubt say there has been lots of participation, but how would you measure whether that has improved or not since the framework? You cannot do it because it has not been done.
This is an important motion. The failings of the minister are obvious. We should be able to have, at annual report hearings, a reckoning of the expenditure in an output class and find out what the people of the ACT got for their taxpayer dollars. Clearly, in arts that is impossible because this minister has not done her job. It is not unreasonable to ask that by the end of February, the last sitting day in February next year, we find out the policy goals and outcomes achieved from the results of the ACT arts policy framework. (Time expired.)
MS BURCH (Brindabella—Minister for Education and Training, Minister for Disability, Minister for Multicultural Affairs, Minister for Racing and Gaming, Minister for Women and Minister for the Arts) (5.20): The government will oppose this motion in its current form. I seek leave to move two amendments circulated in my name together.
Leave granted.
MS BURCH: I move:
(1) Omit paragraph (1)(c), substitute:
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