Page 2846 - Week 07 - Wednesday, 30 June 2010

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Mr Hanson: Do you think we should be involved in—

MR SPEAKER: Order! Let us hear from Mr Stanhope. Mr Corbell, Mr Hanson, thank you! Let us hear from Stanhope.

Mr Corbell: When did you approach me so you could get a briefing from the Chief Police Officer? You did not. You never have.

Mr Hanson: You are playing politics with road safety.

Mr Corbell: You never have.

Mr Seselja: Why don’t you tell those in the gallery why you are opposing this, Jon, why you are delaying it?

MR SPEAKER: Order, members!

MR STANHOPE: Thank you—

MR SPEAKER: Order! Mr Stanhope, sorry, one minute. Stop the clocks, thank you. Members, let us not start in this tone today. I want to hear from Mr Stanhope. Other members will have a chance to intervene shortly.

MR STANHOPE: Thank you, Mr Speaker. There have been a number of interjections in relation to the non-approach or engagement by the Liberal Party or the Greens, the proponents of this bill, with the ACT Chief Police Officer. The ACT government did engage with ACT Policing in relation to this issue broadly. We issued an exposure draft and a discussion paper, and one of the submitters to that process was ACT Policing, along with 24 people who took the time and the opportunity to engage with the government through a consultation process in relation to this legislation. And there is a submission in relation to the broad issues that need to be had regard to in relation to this legislation.

Having said that, Mr Hanson, of course, is now rushing to make up time. It was as a result of my referral of a request to the Chief Police Officer last week that—and I have, indeed, Mr Hanson’s request to the Chief Police Officer here; it was issued last Friday, that is, after I had written to the Chief Police Officer—

Mr Seselja: That was denied.

MR STANHOPE: No, it was not denied. It was not denied at all. That is simply not true.

Mr Seselja: He didn’t get back to him. He didn’t speak to him, did he?

MR STANHOPE: Mr Seselja has just now verballed the Chief Police Officer. He has insisted the Chief Police Officer denied—

Mrs Dunne: No.


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