Page 2304 - Week 06 - Wednesday, 22 June 2011
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stay caravan park for a dollar. He gave those people no security of tenure, and as a result this government had to bail them out.
Members interjecting—
MR ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Mr Hargreaves): Order! Mr Corbell, resume your seat. Stop the clock. Mr Corbell, please. Members of the opposition will desist. Members of the government will stop baiting. So far, the debate has been engaged—
Mr Doszpot interjecting—
MR ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Mr Doszpot, if you want to join Mr Hanson for three hours, you are going the right way about it. So far, this debate has been conducted quietly and arguments have been placed on the record in the proper manner. I will not have exchanges across the chamber. We have already got one person on a holiday; let us leave it at that. Mr Corbell, you have the floor.
MR CORBELL: Thank you, Mr Assistant Speaker. Of course, it is a soft spot, but I will not respond further to the interjections. But it is worth placing on the record that the previous Liberal government and the previous minister for housing, Mr Smyth, were responsible for two terrible decisions that had a direct and immediate impact on low income households in this city. The first was to blow off the Narrabundah long-stay caravan park for a dollar. He wanted to wash his hands of that problem—
Mr Smyth interjecting—
MR ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Order, Mr Smyth! Mr Smyth, don’t ask me to warn you, please.
MR CORBELL: Sell it for a dollar and give those people no security of tenure, resulting in a situation where they were then cast out and had to be bailed out by this government.
Mr Smyth: He can’t lie.
MR ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Mr Corbell, resume your seat. You said what, Mr Smyth?
Mr Smyth: I said he cannot lie.
MR ASSISTANT SPEAKER: I invite you to withdraw that comment, Mr Smyth.
Mr Smyth: I withdraw.
MR ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Thank you. I also invite you to sit there in silence. Next time I have to mention it, I will warn you.
MR CORBELL: He keeps interjecting, Mr Assistant Speaker. I will just have to keep—
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