Page 3436 - Week 13 - Wednesday, 25 November 1992
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Madam Speaker, I think that the Territory can be proud of the public sector enterprises that we do have. I do not need to remind members of what they are. Most of those enterprises are making a return to the community. They are operating with increasingly efficient methods. I believe that the distinction that Mr Kaine is trying to draw is not entirely valid. It is purely ideologically driven and, as I said, reflects the Liberal Party's view that nothing good ever came out of the public sector. Left to their own devices - as we have seen in Mr Kennett's State - they would slash that sector. They would deny the workers in that sector the rights and the conditions that are their due. It is a purely ideologically driven attack.
MR KAINE: I ask a supplementary question, Madam Speaker. Would the Chief Minister undertake to provide the people of Canberra, through this Assembly, with a statement indicating which of her party policy elements she does agree with and will put into effect, and which she does not agree with and will not put into effect?
MS FOLLETT: Madam Speaker, as I have indicated to Mr Kaine, the Government makes the decisions. The Government decides on policies in government. As he said himself, Madam Speaker, the budget strategy statement set out our economic directions in the ACT. That is what we are implementing. His question is entirely rhetorical.
Mr Kaine: No; you are not bound by your party policy after all.
Mr Lamont: Madam Speaker, I rise to a point of order. I refer you to standing order 39. It is getting an absolute travesty. Those on this side of the house who are interested in hearing the answers to the questions are unable to do so because of the repeated interjections by members of the Opposition.
MADAM SPEAKER: Thank you, Mr Lamont.
Government Service - Enterprise Agreement
MS ELLIS: Madam Speaker, my question is directed to the Chief Minister. Can the Chief Minister indicate what the Government is doing to ensure that staff of the ACT Government Service are not disadvantaged compared with Commonwealth public servants who will receive pay rises under the enterprise agreement recently concluded by the Federal Government and the unions?
Mr Kaine: They are still Commonwealth public servants. What is the basis of your question?
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