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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 2 Hansard (25 February) . . Page.. 401 ..

MRS CARNELL: Mr Speaker, we on this side of the house have become used to, of course, those opposite and others actually, at times in this Assembly, simply knocking any new idea at all. The Kingston foreshore redevelopment has been very much part of that as well.

Opposition members interjected.

Mr Hird: Mr Speaker, I cannot hear.

MR SPEAKER: Order! Mr Hird wants to hear.

MRS CARNELL: I suspect that it is to cover up for the appalling lack of new ideas coming from those on the Opposition benches. In fact it is worth noting, just listening to Mr Whitecross, that Mr Whitecross will have been in the job for, I think, one year in about a week's time. As a competition, I would ask members to think of one new idea that Mr Whitecross has come up with in that time - a whole year, Mr Speaker, and no new ideas at all; no new ideas on how to create jobs, something that the Kingston foreshore redevelopment will do; on how to broaden our economic base, something that the Kingston foreshore redevelopment will do.

Mr Whitecross: On a point of order, Mr Speaker: Mrs Carnell is talking about all the jobs that the Kingston foreshore redevelopment will create. Surely that is hypothetical. Mrs Carnell would not want to do that. Going on Mr Humphries's previous experience, an announcement that something is going to happen could be wrong a week later.

MR SPEAKER: There is no point of order, though I must admit I came close to asking the Chief Minister to confine herself to the subject matter of the question, rather than your term in office as Leader of the Opposition. Be assured I have your interests at heart at all times.

Mr Whitecross: Thank you for your protection, Mr Speaker.

MRS CARNELL: Mr Speaker, I was not aware that there was a standing order that talked about answering questions in hypothetical ways. I thought that was something to do with questions. But I am very happy to bend to your superior understanding of these matters. I am happy to be able to say that, unlike all of those - - -

Mr Moore: On a point of order, Mr Speaker: I think the standing order to which Mrs Carnell refers is standing order 118(b), which says that the - - -

MRS CARNELL: I am not referring to a standing order at all.

Mr Moore: Standing order 118(b) says that answers to questions shall not debate the subject to which the question refers. Perhaps Mrs Carnell is feeling a little guilty about this and is doing some projection on that issue.

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