Page 1928 - Week 06 - Thursday, 8 June 2006
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MR STANHOPE: It is a waste of money to take into your confidence the people that you represent and whose money you spend on their behalf. This is a waste of money so far as the Liberal Party is concerned.
We have set out in this budget our vision for the future. We have set out in this budget our commitment to quality service delivery in the territory. We await with great interest the speech which will be delivered at 3 o’clock today by the current Leader of the Opposition, the fourth Leader of the Opposition in the last five years. We have had four sets of leadership visions for the Liberal Party in the last five years. We will get the latest round today from the newest Leader of the Opposition. This is the first opportunity for Mr Stefaniak, as the Leader of the Opposition, as the leader of the Liberal Party in this place, to present an alternative vision.
Members interjecting—
MR SPEAKER: Order! Members of the opposition will come to order. Members of the government will also come to order.
Mr Smyth: I apologise, Mr Speaker. It is just that his maths are out by 33 per cent again. It is this new maths.
MR SPEAKER: Order! Sit down, please.
MR STANHOPE: It is important that we listen with care to the new leader’s visions of alternative governance for the territory. In 20 minutes, we will have the opportunity to listen to and digest the alternative vision by the alternative government. We await with interest and some anticipation the approach which the Liberal Party would take to the issues facing the territory today.
We look forward with great interest to the details of Mr Stefaniak’s vision for the provision of government education in the territory. We want to know what he proposes to deal with the significant issues we face in ensuring quality education for the children of Canberra.
We look forward with great interest to the vision which Mr Stefaniak is about to present on the delivery of quality health care for the people of the territory and the steps he would take, the expenditures he would make and the efficiencies he would seek, accepting that the rate of incremental expenditure and growth in health care are unsustainable into the future. We need to hear from Mr Stefaniak today the efficiencies he will be demanding and which areas of service delivery he will cut to ensure that the incremental 8 to 9 per cent growth in demand in health care will be met by his government.
We await with interest Mr Stefaniak’s plan for public housing in the territory, the detailed plans for how to deal with the enormous pressure on housing and homelessness. These are the things which we know Mr Stefaniak will be dealing with in his reply to the budget in 15 minutes time.
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