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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 5 Hansard (10 May) . . Page.. 1387 ..
MS CARNELL (continuing):
benefits to Canberra. We will end up being the home of the regional airlines ground staff. The regional airlines air crews will be living here in the national capital rather than zooming off to other cities in Australia. That has to be good for us generally. I'm pleased that the opposition has given at least tentative support to this whole approach.
Mr Berry: No, we noted it.
MS CARNELL: No, sorry. Mr Quinlan just said in his speech, "support". Mr Quinlan just indicated that the opposition gave tentative support to this proposal. He wished it well, Mr Berry.
Mr Berry: Yes, so do I.
Mr Stanhope: We all want it to succeed.
MS CARNELL: That's very true. Mr Deputy Speaker, this is an exciting proposal for Canberra, but it is one that we all have to get behind. Just to finish, Mr Quinlan made some comments about Raytheon being part of that arrangement. We are having discussions with Raytheon with regard to them becoming an investor in a simulator out at the airport. That negotiation is still under way, but it is not part of the contract between Impulse Airlines and the ACT government. I certainly hope that it gets up and running, and if we reach agreement that will be announced. I think this is an exciting approach. It is one that will produce jobs, one that will produce economic activity and one that will produce tourism; but it is one that will only work if every single one of us gets behind it and does not knock it for political gain.
MR STANHOPE (Leader of the Opposition) (4.09): I share the bemusement of my colleague Mr Quinlan in relation to what was the motivation of the government in proposing this matter of public importance today.
Mr Berry: I think there's a motion on there that they do not want to see come up for debate.
MR STANHOPE: To some extent I make that comment in light of the remarks by Ms Tucker in the adjournment debate yesterday. Ms Tucker felt the need to make those comments and to explain that the Chief Minister's press release on the day after the debate that we had in March really did misrepresent the position of not only Ms Tucker but also of me and the Labor Party. I have just flicked through the Hansard of my speech in relation to that matter and I was patently clear about the position that the Labor Party was putting. As Mr Berry has just indicated, the nature of the motion on that day was that we note the government's proposals in relation-
Mr Smyth: And Mr Quinlan just said "supports".
MR STANHOPE
: No, no. The motion was that we note the proposals. I am happy to say again what I said in that debate. I am happy to endorse exactly what Mr Quinlan said. The deal has now been done. Anybody in Canberra who would not support it and would not wish it to succeed would have rocks in their head because the proposal involves the
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