Page 2764 - Week 08 - Tuesday, 23 June 2009
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MR HARGREAVES: The Stanhope Labor government is providing people with an opportunity, not an obligation; nobody has their arm ripped up their back to go along and do these things. People are offered the opportunity to take advantage of these particular processes.
Members interjecting—
MR HARGREAVES: These people across here have missed the point entirely.
Members interjecting—
MR HARGREAVES: They have missed the point entirely. Madam Deputy Speaker, conversations across the chamber do not actually cut it. Treasurer—
Members interjecting—
MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Clerk, stop the clock.
MR HARGREAVES: Katy, please. The thing that these people across the chamber have missed—
MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Mr Hargreaves, resume your seat for a moment, please.
MR HARGREAVES: I certainly can if you stop the clock, Madam Chair.
MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Yes, I have. I thought that members wanted to hear what Mr Hargreaves had to say. I thought you wanted to listen to him in silence the way he listened to you. Obviously you do not. I will not call you to order again. I will start warning you. You have been warned that I am going to start warning you if you continue to behave the way you are. We are not having any more conversations across the chamber. We are just going to listen.
Mr Coe: Madam Deputy Speaker, does that apply to both sides of the chamber?
MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Yes.
Mr Coe: Okay. I am just clarifying.
MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Of course. Mr Hargreaves.
MR HARGREAVES: Thank you very much, Madam Deputy Speaker. The issue for me is that these guys just across the road here do not understand that what we are trying to do and what we have been doing since Jon Stanhope led us to government over that rabble across there is provide people who are disadvantaged in our town with the opportunity to be successful in their lives, to build the concrete and bricks of the foundations of a positive life. Most people—maybe not most—many people in this town have been sentenced to a life of tenancy. That is just not on. Just because
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