Page 1668 - Week 07 - Tuesday, 29 May 1990

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sitting opposite. It is the Labor Party which is genuinely opposed to change. In its view, nothing can change - not the schools, not the hospitals, not the way the ACT Government Service does its business. The Labor members are the ultimate reactionaries to every necessary change suggested by the Government. Mr Speaker, if we are conservative then the Labor Party members are ultraconservative. As well as opposing change, they refuse to even recognise that change is necessary. They are wrong, Mr Speaker, and will be proved to be so by events over the next three to five years.

Mr Speaker, I present the following papers:

Priorities Review Board -

 Ministerial statement, 29 May 1990.

 Priorities for improved public sector management -

 Consultants reports to the board.

 Report, dated May 1990.

I move:

That the Assembly takes note of the papers.

Debate (on motion by Ms Follett) adjourned.

TAFE SERVICES - PROVISION AND FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

MR KAINE (Chief Minister): Mr Speaker, I ask leave of the Assembly to make a ministerial statement.

Mr Berry: On a point of order, Mr Speaker; I was well on my feet.

MR KAINE: So was I.

MR SPEAKER: Order! The house will come to order. Mr Berry, resume your seat. The Chief Minister did not sit.

MR KAINE: Mr Speaker, I ask leave of the Assembly to make a ministerial statement on the findings, inclusions and recommendations of a working party convened by the Chief Minister to review the provision and financial management of TAFE in the ACT.

Leave not granted.

Suspension of Standing and Temporary Orders

MR KAINE: Mr Speaker, I move:

That so much of the standing and temporary orders be suspended as would prevent Mr Kaine making a

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