Page 1543 - Week 04 - Thursday, 29 March 2012
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MR HARGREAVES: Keep it up, sunshine. Mr Speaker, I have been interrupted, so if I may, I will go back and start the question all over again.
MR SPEAKER: Thank you, Mr Hargreaves.
Mr Seselja: You cover your party in glory.
MR SPEAKER: Members, enough!
MR HARGREAVES: Better than you do, sunshine.
MR SPEAKER: Mr Hargreaves.
MR HARGREAVES: Mr Speaker, my question is to the Minister for the Arts.
Mrs Dunne: A point of order, Mr Speaker.
MR SPEAKER: Yes, Mrs Dunne.
Mrs Dunne: Twice Mr Hargreaves referred to Mr Seselja as “sunshine”. It is unparliamentary. We have been backwards and forwards about this over the last few days. People should be referred to by their title and their surname.
MR HARGREAVES: Mr Speaker—
MR SPEAKER: On the point of order, Mr Hargreaves?
MR HARGREAVES: I quite willingly withdraw any appellation of the Leader of the Opposition which may regard him as any part of “sunshine” at all.
Mr Seselja: I am very pleased with that withdrawal.
MR HARGREAVES: I thought you might be. Mr Speaker, my question is to the Minister for the Arts and relates to public art. Can the minister inform the Assembly of recent installations of public art in the ACT, including the statue of the late Sir Robert Menzies?
MS BURCH: I thank Mr Hargreaves for his question and his ingoing interest in the arts. I was pleased to attend the launch on Friday morning of the Sir Robert Menzies statue, part of the ACT government’s public artwork program. The government commissioned Sir Robert Menzies and Prime Minister John Curtin and Treasurer Ben Chifley by the acclaimed sculptor Peter Corlett to celebrate and acknowledge former prime ministers who have significantly supported the development of Canberra as the national capital.
Sir Robert Menzies is located across the lake from Curtin and Chifley, which was launched by Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Chief Minister Katy Gallagher in September last year. The artworks have created a tangible link from the historic era of
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