Page 2697 - Week 07 - Tuesday, 28 June 2011
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MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Mr Hanson, can you withdraw without any—
MR HANSON: I did withdraw, and I am moving on.
MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: I do not need the—
Members interjecting—
MR HANSON: I am not. I am just talking about the sequence of events. I am talking about the ACT executive. It gets to my point that the ACT executive, with the amount of funding that it receives, is now running with four ministers. This is an ACT executive in which, as Mr Seselja quite eloquently put it, previous ministers, including Katy Gallagher, have said, “We do not have enough of us,” but when it comes to it they can only run with four as opposed to five.
You have to question why that is. Why is it that this is a Chief Minister who has decided to run with four rather than five? The question is answered when she turns behind her and looks at what those options are. It is quite clear that when she does look at those options, she finds it more palatable to run with four rather than two, three—
Mr Hargreaves: Relevance. At least come close.
MR HANSON: I think it is very relevant to the debate, Madam Deputy Speaker. This government has asked us to appropriate millions of dollars to run the ACT—
Members interjecting—
MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Mr Hargreaves and Mr Seselja, you are not having a conversation across the chamber.
MR HANSON: One would hope that they would run it as efficiently and effectively as possible. In this regard, the Chief Minister has decided that it is going to be more effective and more efficient without a fifth member, without the fifth wheel on the jalopy of the good old ACT Labor government.
Madam Deputy Speaker, I do enjoy Mr Hargreaves’s speeches whenever he gets up to point out to everybody in the community that he sits on the backbench because he is unfit. But he also made some points with regard to what he is calling moral appropriateness at various funding lines. It also relates to a question that he asked in question time about the moral appropriateness of funding and a question that was then asked of the minister, Minister Burch, which was ruled in order, I remind you, Madam Deputy Speaker: is it morally appropriate for political parties to receive hundreds of thousands of dollars from the proceeds of gambling?
That is exactly what this executive does. Whilst Katy Gallagher, Simon Corbell and others stand there with their mock piety, their holier-than-thou attitudes, and try and preach to the community about the shocking Canberra Liberals, in their own nest this is a government that is taking $552,000 directly from the proceeds of gambling. How
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