Page 2981 - Week 08 - Thursday, 25 June 2009

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Environmental Impact Assessment, dated 22 April and 4 June 2009.

National Agreement for Skills and Workforce Development.

National Partnership Agreement on Certain Concessions for Pensioners and Seniors Card Holders, dated December 2008.

National Partnership Agreement on Early Childhood Education, dated December 2008.

National Partnership Agreement on Hospital and Health Workforce Reform dated December 2008.

National Partnership Agreement on Indigenous Economic Participation dated December 2008.

National Partnership Agreement on Low Socio-Economic Status School Communities, dated 22 December 2008 and 27 February 2009.

National Partnership Agreement on the Nation Building and Jobs Plan.

National Partnership Agreement to Deliver a Seamless National Economy, dated 22 December 2008 and February 2009.

Social Housing Implementation Plan.

Road Transport (Mass, Dimensions and Loading) Bill 2009—Revised explanatory statement.

Supplementary answer to question without notice

Budget—indicators

MS GALLAGHER: Mr Speaker, I have a matter relating to question time on Tuesday, if I could deal with that first. Mr Doszpot asked me a question about the use of unaudited indicators and I undertook that I would go back and look at what Mr Harris had said.

I found it, eventually. The comments come from the committee hearing on Tuesday, 26 May, where Mr Harris was providing analysis on the library closures. He said:

The use of unaudited indicators allows governments to craft indicators which are inappropriate, to present fraudulent data, or as worryingly, to manipulate the program so that poor performance is a necessary result.

And this is the bit that Mr Doszpot did not go to:

However, there is insufficient information to sustain any claim that the Griffith Library suffered from any of these stratagems.

I do not think I need to provide any more to that answer.

Financial Management Act—instruments

Papers and statement by minister

MS GALLAGHER (Molonglo—Treasurer, Minister for Health, Minister for Community Services and Minister for Women): For the information of members, I present the following papers:


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