Page 241 - Week 01 - Thursday, 18 February 1993
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We believe that the ACT Government is the only government in Australia which has adopted an omnibus approach to energy management by surveying the energy usage in all government buildings, identifying major projects which will achieve worthwhile payback periods, preparing an overall program for energy management, providing sufficient funding for the work to be undertaken, and delivering real dollar results at the end of the program. I present the following paper:
Energy Management Program - Ministerial statement, 18 February 1993.
I move:
That the Assembly takes note of the paper.
Debate (on motion by Ms Szuty) adjourned.
POLICING
Discussion of Matter of Public Importance
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: Madam Speaker has received letters from Mrs Carnell, me, Mr De Domenico, Mr Humphries, Mr Kaine and Mr Westende proposing that matters of public importance be submitted to the Assembly. In accordance with standing order 79, Madam Speaker has determined that the matter proposed by Mr De Domenico be submitted to the Assembly, namely:
Cuts in ACT policing and the Government's failure to recognise and deal with growing crime rates in the ACT.
MR DE DOMENICO (3.36): Mr Deputy Speaker, notwithstanding the hilarity on the other side of the house, the Liberal Opposition's dispute with the Labor Government concerns the rate at which crime levels are increasing while at the same time the Government is reducing police services. Mr Deputy Speaker, we are often attacked for attempting, in the words of members opposite, to beat up crime statistics and policing issues. (Quorum formed)
Mr Deputy Speaker, I should start again. Our dispute with the Labor Government concerns the rate at which crime levels are increasing while at the same time the Government is reducing police services. We are often attacked by members opposite for attempting, in their words, to beat up crime statistics and policing issues. I am reminded that quite recently on radio Mr Connolly was heard saying that Neighbourhood Watch meetings were Machiavellian political Liberal apparatchiks getting together for political purposes, as were the people who met last night. It appears to me, Mr Deputy Speaker, that if you seem to disagree with the Attorney-General it happens to be a political meeting. I fail to see how these wonderful people in the community that have been involved in Neighbourhood Watch over a number of years could be called quasi-politicians. It seems that once one disagrees with the Minister it is political.
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