Page 1556 - Week 05 - Wednesday, 7 May 2008
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MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: Let me finish so that I can determine what your concern is. What standing order are you quoting?
Mr Stanhope: Mr Deputy Speaker, I am simply suggesting that it is an absolute outrage that the member for Brindabella would describe the people of Tuggeranong as people from the end of the world.
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: There is no point of order. Resume your seat, Chief Minister.
MR SMYTH: What I was saying—
Mr Stanhope: Withdraw! Withdraw!
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order, Mr Stanhope!
MR SMYTH: is there is the Chief Minister, in his furious way, saying, “Get out of my sight. I do not want to see you. Go away.” That is what he is saying. You can tell that he is really stung by a motion when he goes into personal attack. This is the man who actually said that people who live in Tuggeranong live in gutters with the dog turds and the cigarette butts. That is what the Chief Minister thinks of Tuggeranong. The Chief Minister hardly ever comes to Tuggeranong. The Chief Minister would not know where Tuggeranong was.
That is why he is quite happy for first home buyers to be out of his sight, out of his mind, because he just does not care. If the Chief Minister knew anything about Banks he would know that the prices of homes down there are in the range of $319,000 to $339,000—well outside his concession range. They are not going to get anything from you if they attempt to buy their first home in Banks because you have not kept up with real people. That is your problem.
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: Mr Smyth, please direct your remarks through the chair. Can we have a lot less banter on both sides of the chamber?
MR SMYTH: I know he is hurt by this, Mr Deputy Speaker. We know that when he gets the shrill tone in his voice and we know that when he jumps up. We know that he does not know the standing orders after 10 years of being here. We know that he does not have a real solution to this. We know that he is stung by our policies. He cannot come to grips with the reality that we actually have a solution to a problem that he has created—that he has ignored and exacerbated. He refuses to accept and acknowledge his part in creating that problem.
He does not know that the average person living in Banks cannot get the concession because the prices in Banks are above that range. That is how out of touch Jon Stanhope is with the good folk of Banks. He has probably never been to Banks.
Mr Stanhope: I don’t say that they live at the end of the earth—not like the member for Brindabella.
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