Page 4230 - Week 14 - Tuesday, 29 November 1994
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Mr Lamont: Hang on! You are showing how good the report is, I suppose. Your leader just bagged it.
MR DE DOMENICO: If Mr Lamont wants to listen - - -
Mr Lamont: Your leader bagged it. You are saying that she does not know what she is talking about.
MR DE DOMENICO: The report continues:
The Minister -
Mr Lamont, who is now interjecting -
declined to provide a copy of the $3.3m settlement between ACTTAB and VITAB. This response was consistent with earlier answers on this matter, which was essentially that no information would be made public.
This is the Government that stands up and talks about public consultation. We have Mr Wood saying, "No; you cannot have a copy of that contract, which may cost this community $25m, because it is commercial-in-confidence"; we have Mr Lamont saying, "No; you cannot have a copy of the deal we have done where we have given them $3.3m, because it is commercial-in-confidence"; and we are debating here how wonderful this report is!
This Government stands condemned and continues to stand condemned, notwithstanding what this report says. It has nothing to do with what members of this Opposition say or do not say to one another from time to time.
Mr Lamont: Madam Speaker, I rise on a point of order. I would draw Mr De Domenico's attention to the level of support that he has from his own benches.
MADAM SPEAKER: I do not think that qualifies as a point of order.
MR DE DOMENICO: Madam Speaker, once again, that comment by Mr Lamont shows the mockery of, and the disdain with which this community should hold, this Government opposite, because it shows how an arrogant government believes that it is born to rule in this place. But let me say to Mr Lamont that the people of the ACT will not fall for that. The people of the ACT will not read this report. If they do happen to read it, they should not come back with smiles on their faces, because this report, time and time again, says, if you read it carefully - - -
Mr Lamont: Hang on! Your leader said that it is no good. You are bagging your own leader.
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