Page 3133 - Week 08 - Wednesday, 22 August 2012
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nothing. We are less than two months away from the territory election and the Leader of the Opposition stands for nothing.
The only conclusions you can draw from dragging out the former Chief Minister Kate Carnell into this debate this morning is that they want to draw attention to their previous record in government; a period where we saw scandal after scandal: the blowing up of hospitals, scathing Auditor-General’s reports into the administration of government—12 volumes, 1,300 pages of work from the Auditor-General in that time, who said that the administration operated amidst a “pervasive ignorance of the law”. That was Kate Carnell’s record: serious breaches of the law.
The reason there were so many no-confidence motions moved in that government was that it was so hopeless, so scandal prone, that in the end Kate Carnell had to resign because she knew she was going to lose that motion of no confidence. When you look at the record of that government—the Chief Minister went to this in terms of the health system that it presided over, but it was not just in health; it was in virtually every other area of performance—perhaps it was summed up best by that fiasco around Bruce stadium. We all remember the efforts to paint the grass green—
Mr Seselja interjecting—
MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Stop the clock, please. Mr Seselja, please, I want the minister heard in silence; okay? Other people have been heard in silence. The minister will be heard in silence.
Mr Seselja: Just for the record, Madam Deputy Speaker, other members have not been, including me. I have been heckled consistently by Mr Corbell. I made no complaint of it. I made no complaints, but I think we should just be fair dinkum in the rulings. Other members have not been heard in silence.
MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Are you questioning my ruling in—
Mr Seselja: I am simply drawing to your attention that I was not heard in silence.
MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: And I believe Ms Bresnan was not heard in silence. Members’ attention was drawn to the fact that members should be heard in silence, and they will be. The next person to start to raise their voice across the chamber I will warn. Thank you.
MR BARR: As I was observing, whichever strategic genius within the Liberal Party decided that rolling out Kate Carnell this morning was a good tactic—bring it on; keep on doing that. Let us have more of Kate, because if ever there was an administration that petered out, that failed the people of Canberra—
MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Resume your seat, please. Stop the clock.
Mr Hanson: On a point of order on relevance, the minister may be unaware that this is a vote of no confidence in the current Chief Minister, Katy Gallagher, and he is litigating a vote of no confidence about a previous chief minister, Kate Carnell, and I would just draw that matter to the attention of the Deputy Chief Minister.
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