Page 3947 - Week 09 - Wednesday, 25 August 2010
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Mr Hanson: There was none.
Mr Seselja: Well, where is the third-party validator?
Ms Gallagher: Was she wrong?
Mr Hanson: She did not try and buy the hospital, Katy.
Ms Gallagher: What did the Liberal government do?
Mr Hanson: Kate Carnell did not try and buy the hospital.
MR SPEAKER: Order, members. I cannot hear the Chief Minister. Do not shout across the chamber.
Mrs Dunne: He does not have anything to say.
Mr Hanson: Kate Carnell did not try and buy the hospital.
Ms Gallagher: She did not invest in it, because she could not afford it.
MR SPEAKER: Ms Gallagher.
MR STANHOPE: The position we took was appropriate and reasonable at the time we developed the position, and circumstances changed. The accounting standards did, so, of course, we changed our position. Why would we not? It would be completely unreasonable, and that is the nonsense of this particular motion.
We adopted a position that was reasonable and appropriate. You might not have agreed with it. You might have actually approached it in a different way, but you cannot say that it was not appropriate on the basis of the advice we received at the time. It was more than appropriate, and the advice in relation to the accounting standards that applied then still stands. It is just that the accounting standard has changed, and, because of that, the government has reviewed and reflected on a new way forward.
The minister has, in acceptance of that, put forward four new policy positions or options, and I think it behoves the Liberal Party to look, now that there are those four possible options on the table—and the minister has done this in a spirit and a willingness to engage. It would, of course, be pleasing if the Liberal Party would give us some indication now of a willingness to engage on one of the options. Are any of these options going to be options that the Liberal Party is prepared to give serious consideration to?
Mr Hanson: Until we see the detail, how can we possibly do that?
MR STANHOPE: Well, you could work at developing the detail. You could ask questions about that, rather than moving these tedious motions that you have moved
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