Page 2461 - Week 06 - Thursday, 24 June 2010
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MADAM ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Order, members! I cannot hear Mr Coe. Please let him be heard in silence.
MR COE: I thank Mrs Dunne for bringing on this matter of public importance. It is indeed of grave importance to us all—the fact that so much of taxpayers’ money is going towards a system which is so grossly inefficient. It is a system which many people in Canberra depend on, but many people in Canberra are getting a raw deal from it through their taxpayer dollars and also through the fare box. I urge the Chief Minister to resolve tomorrow’s strike as quickly as possible and to make ACTION a more viable bus service for everyone so that we truly can have a sustainable transport system here in Canberra.
MR HARGREAVES (Brindabella) (4.23): I was just wondering which one of Mr Coe or Mrs Dunne wrote the speeches. I reckon they have got notations in them: “Get really excited about now. See if you can put your voice into upper register G and not middle C.”
Mr Coe: Tell us about Network 06. Tell us about Network 08. Tell us all about it.
Mrs Dunne: I want you to justify Network 06, Johnno, because—
Mr Coe interjecting—
MR HARGREAVES: Madam Assistant Speaker, I have a record in this place. I get these people screaming at me inside three seconds.
Mr Coe: How is Network 08?
Mrs Dunne: you are the architect of Network 06.
MR HARGREAVES: You guys are unbelievable—I love ya. My life is complete. It would be dreadful without you.
MR HARGREAVES: Can you imagine this, Madam Assistant Speaker? I heard Mrs Dunne actually supporting the archaic provisions that the TWU want to continue. You know how we used to have this mind picture of somebody there with a balaclava and a big dog? I know who that was.
Mr Coe: That’s Kevin Reynolds.
MR HARGREAVES: No, that was Brendan Smyth’s boss, Peter Reith. That is who it was. I remember that. Now I have got this mind picture of Mrs Dunne out there in the middle of London Circuit with this great big bloke with a blue T-shirt, a blue singlet, arm-in-arm embracing themselves, saying, “You’re not going to take away my steel-capped boots.” They will swap T-shirts and boots and then they will walk down the road, hobnail boots in hand, and go into the sunset together in love. You have got to ask yourself, Madam Assistant Speaker. That made about as much sense as the entirety of those two speeches.
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