Page 534 - Week 02 - Tuesday, 8 March 2011
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MR ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Mr Hanson, you are on a warning already.
MS GALLAGHER: where you can never, ever change a decision you have made or modify a policy proposal in order to deliver the better outcome. Those opposite, because they are never going to be in government, never have to deal with these issues. They never have to seriously engage with anything. What is your view on the north side hospital? What is your view on change of use charge?
Mr Hanson interjecting—
MR ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Mr Hanson, I remind you that you are on a warning. You could be on holiday.
MS GALLAGHER: What is your view on the taxation review? What is your view on the waste strategy? What is your view on the budget plan? You do not have a view. None of you have ever had to have a view on anything because you do not ever intend to be in government—
Mrs Dunne interjecting—
MR ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Mrs Dunne!
Mrs Dunne interjecting—
MR ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Mrs Dunne!
MS GALLAGHER: and you know that the ACT community are smarter than the lot of you, and they will never elect a lazy group of policy-ineligible representatives—I was going to say something else, but I will not. They will not ever elect you, not the way you behave now, like a bunch of school kids that come in here and misbehave and think it is hilarious.
See Mr Hanson sitting there grinning and smiling. No-one thinks it is hilarious to say that Ms Hunter has policy priorities out of her arse, or this morning that little quip that she was talking from the toilet—all of that. I heard it, Mr Hanson, just sitting there.
Mr Hanson: What?
MS GALLAGHER: Stand here and say you did not say it. That is the attitude that you bring to this place.
Mr Hanson: I raise a point of order, Mr Assistant Speaker. I am not quite sure what the minister is referring to, but if she is trying to make a comment, she had better—
MR ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Mr Hanson, I am sorry; you have to be more explicit. There is no point of order. Please resume your seat.
MS GALLAGHER: Thank you, Mr Assistant Speaker. I will not stand here and be accused of being a liar. I have not even got to the matter of public importance today,
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