Page 2429 - Week 07 - Wednesday, 17 June 2009
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Other material is being considered in the context of the current negotiations with Little Company of Mary and therefore is commercial-in-confidence.
We can go to everything this government has said about commercial-in-confidence. I go back to the code of good government:
We will open debate with the community, rather than contain it to members of the Assembly.
Openness is one of our core values …
We will not compromise our integrity. We will lead when necessary and not trade off our position in secret deals.
The government’s core value document, a code of good government, goes on to say:
Under Labor, the ACT Government and its agencies will restrict the use of commercial confidentiality to the narrowest possible application. Labor accepts that there are exceptional occasions when some commercial arrangements between Government and private sector must remain confidential …
but the stress is on “exceptional occasions”—
Labor won’t hide behind a cloak of confidentiality.
Then it goes on to say, about some of the things that occurred in the Carnell-Humphries years, that it:
… revealed an appalling lack of documentation of decisions and approvals …
It is essential that there is a paper-trail where the expenditure of public money is involved.
Ms Gallagher: Yes, and you will find that—
MR SMYTH: But what the minister is saying is, “We don’t have any of that and we are not going to show you.”
Ms Gallagher: No. That is not what I’m saying.
MR SMYTH: It says:
Honesty is central to the values held by ACT Labor.
Well, there is not much honesty here—
Ms Gallagher: Read the last line again, Mr Smyth.
MR SMYTH: I will read the last line again.
Ms Gallagher: Again, it’s that simple concept. Try and get it.
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