Page 3210 - Week 08 - Wednesday, 22 August 2012
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How about the V8 car race? That was a good investment of public funds—$8 million down the toilet. “Up in smoke” would be a better way of putting it. Did it bring extra tourism into the town? No. Did it thrill a whole stack of people? Not really. Did a whole stack of people in this city get upset? Yes, they did. Did it have a whole stack of noisy cars belching smoke around the parliamentary triangle and denigrate that particular part of the national capital? Yes, it did. It was a dozy idea at the beginning.
One of them that actually got my fancy was the Hall-Kinlyside debacle. That is where we found that the government of the day could not tell the difference between a block and a lease.
Mr Smyth: Madam Deputy Speaker, on a point of order—
MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Mr Hargreaves, could you resume your seat. Stop the clock, please. Yes, Mr Smyth.
Mr Smyth: While it is interesting that Mr Hargreaves reminisces about his 14 years in the Assembly as some sort of prelude to Friday, you might draw to his attention that it is the north Weston ponds about which we are speaking.
MR HARGREAVES: On the point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker, I am merely responding to Mr Seselja’s dissertation, which had nothing to do with the Weston ponds but, rather, the delivery of infrastructure programs on time and on budget. That is what I am talking about in my speech here.
Mrs Dunne: On the point of order, in what sense do the V8 supercars relate to the delivery of infrastructure on time and on budget and in what way does the argument about Hall-Kinlyside relate to the delivery of infrastructure on time and on budget?
MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Thank you, Mrs Dunne.
MR HARGREAVES: Madam Deputy Speaker, if Mrs Dunne would like to hang on to her patience just a little bit more, I will be only too pleased to tell her.
MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Could you come to the infrastructure point of your dissertation?
MR HARGREAVES: Certainly, Madam Deputy Speaker. The V8 car races were about the infrastructure that was put in place.
Mrs Dunne: Madam Deputy Speaker, on the point of order—
MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Would you resume your seat? Stop the clock. Mrs Dunne, I have already asked Mr Hargreaves to return to the subject of infrastructure.
Mrs Dunne: You have? I am sorry; I did not hear that.
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