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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 6 Hansard (17 June) . . Page.. 1634 ..
MRS CARNELL (continuing):
The scheme is open to local, interstate and international firms. In fact, so far this financial year, of the 17 firms assisted, 13 are local firms, including a major assistance package to a local firm, Coms21, which we announced last week. Interstate firms must demonstrate their suitability to the ACT to win assistance. In other words, when you put aside the rather contradictory political rhetoric that we heard from the Labor leader - nobody can remember his name - over the weekend, their approach is taken word for word from the Government's business policies, policies that are already in place and are working. You have only to look at the employment statistics to see that 7,000 new jobs were created in the last six months. I suppose imitation is the most sincere form of flattery, but in this case I think it is more a reflection of the absolute lack of any new ideas from the Labor Party. It is either that or Mr Whitecross is spending far too much time looking over his shoulder and has not actually had any chance to look to the future. But at least he did have time to read our business incentive scheme policy and reinvent it as his own at the Labor Party conference.
MR BERRY: My question is to Mr Kaine in his capacity, or incapacity, as Minister for Urban Services. Minister, do you concede that your decision to allow Deane's buses to pick up and set down passengers constitutes the privatisation of a route service and that your actions contravene a motion passed by this Assembly on 31 May 1995 and reflect the contempt which you and other members of your Government have for this place?
Mrs Carnell: It is better for the buses to drive past and not pick people up?
Ms McRae: Mr Speaker, I think you usually call for order on interjections.
MR KAINE: I wish he would, Ms McRae. I find this a rather fascinating question because the answer to it, in the main, in fact, has already appeared in the Canberra Times, in an excellent article by Graham Downie. In fact, I will read it into Hansard:
The perfectly reasonable and rational decision to allow Deane's Buslines to serve Canberra people for an eight-weekend trial ...
Mr Berry: Mr Speaker, on a point of order: My question was in relation to contempt and contempt of a resolution of this Assembly. I draw your attention to the standing orders - - -
Mr Humphries: Which one?
MR SPEAKER: Yes. Which one? There are 275 of them.
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