Page 4038 - Week 13 - Wednesday, 13 December 2006
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Mr Corbell: My motion seeks to censure Mr Seselja for abusing the processes of this Assembly by making misleading and untrue claims.
MR SPEAKER: Mr Corbell, you have a right of reply. I think you should withdraw that statement.
Mr Corbell: For the benefit of the debate continuing, I withdraw it.
MR SESELJA: He has to withdraw it unequivocally.
MR SPEAKER: He has withdrawn it.
MR SESELJA: We have had very helpful input from the planning minister. After speaking in debate for 20 minutes or more he still gets very touchy when he does not like what I am saying. Today Simon Corbell is objecting to the proposition—and his colleagues will support the motion—that the opposition should not be able to scrutinise the government. The opposition should not be able to raise questions or put forward documentary evidence and say, “Something is wrong here.” Mr Corbell has denied our fundamental claim.
Mr Corbell: But there wasn’t. There wasn’t something wrong with it; that is the whole point.
MR SESELJA: There was. Mr Corbell denied it and he continues to deny it. He is the only person in Canberra who thinks it was clear. The Auditor-General does not agree with him and none of the bidders agrees with him. This is the process that Mr Corbell thought was clear. Austexx, the winning bidder, wrote on five separate occasions either to ACTPLA or to the LDA seeking clarification of the land use. As late as December, one or two weeks before, correspondence was going back and forth between Austexx and ACTPLA relating to a proper understanding of the territory plan as it applied to this site. Yet Mr Corbell still maintains that this process was clear. No-one believes him.
Mr Corbell: And the Auditor-General says that as well.
MR SESELJA: The Auditor-General does not say that. The Auditor-General states very clearly that it was not clear. It should have been made clear. The minister should have added an addendum. He did not.
Mr Corbell: The Auditor-General says it was sufficiently clear for normal due justice. You are wrong and you know you are wrong.
MR SPEAKER: Order!
MR SESELJA: He was advised by his government to add an addendum and he did not. He failed to do so.
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