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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 3 Hansard (9 April) . . Page.. 791 ..

MRS CARNELL (continuing):

political appointments. They were the Master of the Supreme Court and the Discrimination Commissioner. I suppose they could be vaguely political, but we will not get into that. The issue is that we in this Government have not appointed any of our staff to Public Service jobs - something that happened not just once under the previous Government. The professionalism of our Public Service is something that is very important to all of us here.

Mr Berry: Not some of them, though. A dozen or so are not so important.

MRS CARNELL: Mr Berry says that to a dozen or so it is not very important. Over the last two days we have listened to comments about politicisation of people who obviously are not politicised. They have worked for Labor governments more than Liberal governments. It is not fair to the people involved. It is not fair to people putting an enormous amount of effort into the ACT. The Government is fair game for the Opposition. It is fine for the Opposition to get stuck into us; but our senior public servants are not fair game in this place, unless those opposite have some evidence that they are doing something wrong.

Mr Berry: People leave because of you.

MRS CARNELL: The fact is that there have been no sackings from the Senior Executive Service. There have not been more. I think we have one of the best senior public service teams in this country.

MR OSBORNE: Mr Speaker, I seek leave to table some documents and make a short speech on those documents.

MR SPEAKER: What are they in relation to?

MR OSBORNE: The front page of the Canberra Times in relation to the peace park issue and some minutes from the RSL finance committee's meetings of 1993 and 1994.

Leave granted.

MR OSBORNE: Yesterday I made some comments in regard to Ms Jacqui Rees and her involvement with the RSL. I said that she had been on a $1,000 a month retainer from the RSL since 1993, a position she resigned from only last week. Ms Rees said that she had not been on a retainer. I would just like to table minutes from two RSL finance committee meetings. The minutes for 14 October 1993 state:

The National President advised that further to National Executive Minute Item 31 of August 1993 -

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