Page 2028 - Week 06 - Thursday, 8 June 2006
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MR CORBELL: Yabba, yabba, yabba. There he goes again. He just cannot help himself, Mr Temporary Deputy Speaker. He cannot help himself when he is caught out. He cannot help himself when he has made the big blooper of not actually looking at the bottom line to see whether there has actually been a reduction in funding. There has not. This is an absurd amendment by the Liberal Party and one that shows their complete failure to understand exactly what is trying to be achieved here; that is, more resources where they count, at the sharp end. In this case, it is about better outcomes for health promotion in the territory.
MR SMYTH (Brindabella) (10.27): I wish to respond quickly to that one. I am sure that Mr Corbell will get hold of a copy of Hansard and show where any members on this side of the house have actually said tonight that funding to Healthpact will be reduced, because none of us has said that. Not one of us has said that. That is typical of the behaviour of Mr Corbell, who just spins, twists and weaves. I think it is from embarrassment at having his happy, smiley face in this book lauding how wonderful Healthpact is and the wonderful work that the board has done. There he is on page 1, Mr Smiley himself, praising Healthpact, praising the way that it has done things. If anybody has been caught out, if anybody has been shown up for their hypocrisy, it is Mr Corbell.
Amendment negatived.
Clause 4 agreed to.
Schedule 1, part 1.1, agreed to.
Schedule 1, part 1.2.
MR STEFANIAK (Ginninderra—Leader of the Opposition) (10.30): Mr Speaker, move amendment No 6 circulated in my name [see schedule 1 at page 2037].
This amendment omits a section stripping a reference to the Emergency Services Authority from the Emergencies Act 2004. Again, it is one of those amendments in relation to the three authorities we do not want to be put back into the government bureaucratic structure.
MR PRATT (Brindabella) (10.30): This government’s handling of emergency management since it has come to power has been a muddle-headed—
Mr Stanhope: You said that before.
Mr Seselja: He is going to say it again.
MR PRATT: I am going to say it again: it has been a muddle-headed and clumsy affair. From the December 2001 fire you learnt nothing, and the lessons arising from that fire led to the parlous state that emergency management was in in 2003. As a consequence of the 2003 disaster, McLeod recommended the establishment of the Emergency Services Authority. You have now turned the clock back and this is the final loop that you have
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