Page 4720 - Week 11 - Wednesday, 19 October 2011
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Mr Hanson: You got 19 per cent in the Canberra Times poll, Andrew.
Mr Smyth: What does the online poll say, Mr Hanson?
Mr Hanson: Labor’s 19 per cent, the Greens are 10. Have you seen that one—talking about computers?
MR BARR: And it is good to see just how sensitive those opposite are when their voting record is brought to the attention of the Assembly, Mr Speaker.
MR SPEAKER: Thank you, members. Order!
MR BARR: And I simply refer those members opposite to the minutes of proceedings, the formal record—
Opposition members interjecting—
MR SPEAKER: Members!
MR BARR: of how people vote in this place on the issues that matter. What we see from the Canberra Liberals—you can detect their sensitivity on this by the volume of interjection from every single one who has already got a warning, Mr Speaker. You see this time and time again. The Liberals’—
Opposition members interjecting—
MR SPEAKER: Thank you, members. Let us just tone it down.
MR BARR: view on education, particularly public education—Mrs Dunne is the champion of this—is that that investment is throwing good money after bad. (Time expired.)
Amendment agreed to.
MS PORTER (Ginninderra) (6.12): I thank members for their contribution to the debate. However, I had hoped that Mr Doszpot could have congratulated ACT students, our ACT teachers and parents, our school communities and our hardworking directorate, if not the minister. It is as though these results do not exist. I sat and listened to Mr Doszpot’s spray, which was nothing more than a vindictive attack on the minister who has overseen an education system that has achieved all these wonderful results—not singlehandedly, of course, but with all of those people that we mentioned before, not least the students.
I believe that this is the subject of my motion, although one would hardly have realised that if one had been listening to Mr Doszpot. I can only hope that these very same students, these very same teachers, these parents and these committed school communities and the directorate staff were not listening while Mr Doszpot spent his valuable time denigrating the minister instead of focusing on the motion. Of course, if
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