Page 5506 - Week 13 - Wednesday, 17 November 2010
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Mrs Dunne: Yes, and that was a roaring success, wasn’t it?
MS GALLAGHER: I presume you always have a rather critical view of my performance on the radio, Mrs Dunne. So I am not really worried about the constructive feedback I get from the Liberal Party because I doubt very much that you will ever say, “Gee, I thought that was a good radio interview, Katy.” But anyway, that is aside from the point.
The issue that we are trying to make here is, yes, over 10 years you can pull together ABS data that shows that there have been increases in the cost of living. Well, what a surprise that is. I do not think anybody is surprised by that. Yes, costs have gone up; they have gone up over a decade. But you cannot and should not—and indeed it is a misleading way—put out one set of data and not pull together the other important data to consider as part of this.
If, for example, household income had not risen at all, if there had been no population increase at all in the ACT, if the demand for government services across the ACT had not increased, then yes, sure, look at these figures in isolation. But that does not give you the true picture of the things that governments need to consider when providing services to the community and when considering the need to increase revenue or increase fees and charges.
The motion also goes on to outline the usual targets of the Liberal Party. The arboretum: I think you are the last group of people in the community opposed to the arboretum.
Mr Seselja: You are not talking to many people, then, Katy. You are not talking to many people.
Mr Hanson: Really? You don’t get out much, do you?
Mrs Dunne: No, they don’t get out much.
MS GALLAGHER: I really do.
Mr Seselja: You’ve really got to get beyond the inner north, Katy.
MS GALLAGHER: I think you have got to work out at what point you are going to start supporting the arboretum—
Mr Seselja: You’ve got to consult wider than the inner north.
MS GALLAGHER: because it is moving away from you, from the Liberals.
Mr Hanson: How about public art? How is that going?
Mr Seselja: Have you ever been to Tuggeranong?
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