Page 922 - Week 03 - Tuesday, 29 March 2011
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The minister undertook to come back and tell the chamber what was happening, and this statement is an incredibly comprehensive statement about what is actually happening. But it does not contain a whole stack of flowery words. It does not happen to contain a whole heap of high dudgeon “you are doing the wrong thing, you horrible person” type stuff. No, it is just simply factual. Do we hear anybody over there picking out one or two pieces and saying, “That is a good idea”? No. We see people trolling through this, then trying to find something they are not happy with. I did not hear any congratulations.
Mrs Dunne: There are lots of good ideas. Why were they not there, in operation, for two years?
MR HARGREAVES: Mrs Dunne, I heard you in silence. I would appreciate it if you would be—
Mrs Dunne: You did not.
MR HARGREAVES: I did.
Mrs Dunne: I heard you trying to interject.
MR HARGREAVES: You did not at all. Mrs Dunne needs a hearing aid. I have not uttered one word in this debate, other than now, and I suggest that she check the tape and then go and consider for herself her hysterical tirade earlier on.
Mr Hanson: Just as you are now, Johnno.
MADAM ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Ms Le Couteur): Mr Hanson, please be quiet.
MR HARGREAVES: Mr Hanson, you can join the ranks of the tirade doers as well, if you like.
The statement says, in a dot point, that some 20 new youth workers have been recruited since November 2010. Even those opposite would know how long it takes to take somebody who has been recruited and actually have them on deck. We are not talking about manufacturing widgets here. We are talking about people’s lives. These people have to be inducted, they have to receive on-the-job training and they have to be on it. I do not see that. I do not hear anyone saying, “We see that it is going in the right direction.” No, I do not hear that. All I hear is that usual tirade from Mrs Dunne going on and on, and I think it is disgusting. I think it is unwarranted and disgusting.
She asked the minister to deliver. The minister delivers and she gets up and hurls a molotov cocktail across the chamber, saying, “No, not good enough.” That is absolute rot. It does not recognise the seriousness or the size of the problem.
Ms Hunter actually put her finger on it, I thought, quite appropriately when she raised the issue of the culture change that has to occur. What we need to understand is the immediate history that has occurred with this. What was the malaise at Quamby?
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