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$300,000 that is going to be tagged somewhere onto someone’s bill I think we can accord to Mr Rattenbury.

Regarding plastic bags, the cost of that can go through to Mr Corbell. All of the costs from DV306 and the solar aspects to that—again, Mr Rattenbury is a strong advocate but Mr Corbell seems to have taken that one up. But let us share the parking pain. The increases in parking that are trying to drive people who drive their cars—

Mr Rattenbury: It’s not worth staying, Mr Hanson.

MR HANSON: It is not worth staying for? You could find out who wins, who is the biggest leftie, who is driving up the cost of living the most with their ideological pursuits.

Mr Barr: So have you ruled out light rail now?

MR HANSON: Have I ruled out light rail? At any cost I have, yes. I can clarify that the Liberals will not, as Mr Barr said, deliver light rail at any cost. I commend Mr Smyth for his questioning in committee. I think that is the only cost-benefit that has been done on this by the Labor Party—“at any cost”.

There is a range of these things. The more serious point of the pain that will be inflicted on Canberrans in terms of their cost of living is, sadly, that this is a government that, whatever words one wants to use—“transformative”, “progressive”—is the most green government in Australia. It is pursuing an ideological agenda that suits a narrow majority of this town at the expense of the majority, and the majority pay for that. They have paid for that in their cost of living. I commend this motion to the Assembly.

Question put:

That Mr Hanson’s motion be agreed to.

The Assembly voted—

Question so resolved in the negative.

Adjournment

Motion (by Mr Barr) proposed:

That the Assembly do now adjourn.

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