Page 590 - Week 02 - Wednesday, 9 March 2011
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place, resign for not running your portfolio properly? (Time expired.)
MR STANHOPE (Ginninderra—Chief Minister, Minister for Transport, Minister for Territory and Municipal Services, Minister for Business and Economic Development, Minister for Land and Property Services, Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs and Minister for the Arts and Heritage) (12.24): I think in any debate or conversation around corrections and the Alexander Maconochie Centre it is relevant to reflect on the inherent, the underlying attitude of the Liberal Party to corrections. It is relevant to reflect on what the state of corrections would be today had they won government. We all remember and we all know that the Liberal Party opposed—opposed root and branch, opposed absolutely—the construction of the Alexander Maconochie Centre.
Mr Smyth: On a point of order, Mr Speaker, the motion is not about the Liberal Party. The motion is about Mr Corbell. It is a censure motion and the minister should at least be relevant.
MR STANHOPE: On a censure motion, the context is wide.
MR SPEAKER: At this point there is no point of order. I think we have had a fairly broad range of discussion on the conduct of the corrections system in the ACT, but I am sure, Chief Minister, you will not spend too much of your time on this component of your speech.
MR STANHOPE: Thank you, Mr Speaker. The context is relevant and I think it is relevant to this debate. It is relevant to an understanding of why it is that, as Ms Bresnan in particular has said, this is a serial motion that is brought—what?—once a month. It is certainly brought on every occasion that the Assembly sits these days. It is a case of another sitting day, another censure motion. One wonders why. What is this focus? What is the depth of understanding? What is the philosophical position that the Liberal Party have to corrections and the corrections practice that is at the heart of this constant baying—
Mr Hanson interjecting—
MR STANHOPE: this constant misunderstanding, this constant misinformation and the constant misleading—
Opposition members interjecting—
MR SPEAKER: Order!
MR STANHOPE: in relation to the programs and the order of events that have been part and parcel of the establishment of the Alexander Maconochie Centre.
Opposition members interjecting—
MR SPEAKER: Order! Chief Minister, one moment, please. Stop the clocks, thank you. Members, the Assistant Speaker when he was in the chair made his expectations
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