Page 2732 - Week 07 - Tuesday, 29 June 2010
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That is a massive increase. Now, to suggest that in those nine years the level of services has gone up 80 per cent or that the population has gone up 80 per cent or that inflation has gone up 80 per cent is outrageous. It is not true. It has gone up well above that.
So this is a budget that is not fiscally responsible, not accurate, not transparent. It engages in wasteful spending and higher taxes, and it slugs families. For all those reasons, it is a budget not worth supporting. It is a budget not worth supporting—again—from a government that simply cannot manage. We pay more and we get less. We see it again. It is reflected clearly in this budget, and we will have far more discussions, as this budget debate goes on, on the massive flaws in this ACT Labor budget.
Proposed expenditure agreed to.
Proposed expenditure—Part 1.2—ACT Executive—$6,345,000 (payments on behalf of the territory), totalling $6,345,000.
MR SESELJA (Molonglo—Leader of the Opposition) (3.24): It is worth speaking briefly in relation to the ACT executive. This is the line item that funds our ministers. This is what funds the key decision makers in this government and the support—
Mr Corbell: You are like Bill Stefaniak. You sort of read the explanatory statement and make a speech.
MADAM ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Mrs Dunne): Mr Corbell, be quiet. I have asked you to be quiet before.
MR SESELJA: I was not sure whether I should devote some special time in ACT executive to Mr Corbell but I think it is worth it.
Mr Corbell: Go on. Do it.
MADAM ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Mr Corbell, I have told you to be quiet. If you interject again I will—
MR SESELJA: He has talked me into it. So it is worth looking at the performance of some of those individual ministers, because we have seen right across the board some of the failings. We discussed what is going on in the health system and the massive increases in waiting lists. Mr Corbell, I think, does deserve special mention.
Mr Corbell: Thank you.
MADAM ASSISTANT SPEAKER: I warn you, Mr Corbell.
MR SESELJA: He does deserve special mention as a performing minister. We have seen, in fact, the prison has been handled in such an amazing way by Mr Corbell. It
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