Page 2879 - Week 10 - Tuesday, 13 August 2013
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saying they have been insulted by this government, these sort of negotiations are very important.
If you see what has occurred in other jurisdictions, in WA and in other states, the premiers of those states held out. They said, “We’re going to get what we can for our jurisdiction. We’re going to get every cent.” They had a very different approach, and they have got it. WA’s offer tripled from $300 million to $900 million. Other jurisdictions got hundreds of millions of dollars more money by effective negotiation, by holding out.
Mr Barr: Poor old Barry O’Farrell got it wrong, did he?
MR HANSON: What happened is that the Chief Minister signed up early.
Mr Barr: After Barry O’Farrell.
MR HANSON: You are saying that Barry O’Farrell got it wrong, Treasurer.
Mr Barr: No, I am not. I am saying you’re suggesting that your colleague got it wrong.
MR HANSON: The Treasurer is insinuating or saying that Barry O’Farrell got it wrong. If he did then that validates what I am saying—that is, the Chief Minister—
Mr Barr: You’re not prepared to make that call?
MR HANSON: I am saying that the Chief Minister certainly did. I am analysing—
MR ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Mr Doszpot): Mr Hanson, please direct your comments through the chair.
MR HANSON: I am analysing what happened in the ACT, not necessarily in New South Wales. But I make the case very strongly—and actually I think you will find that Barry O’Farrell, if you read about it, is not happy with the fact that other jurisdictions then got more money. But let us—
Mr Barr: Every time your lips move, it confirms what an idiot you are.
MR HANSON: You might want to repeat what you just said there, or—
Mr Barr: Sorry, say it louder? Every time your lips move? Yes.
MR ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Members, please do not—
MR HANSON: I love the interjections from those opposite. I remember it was Mr Smyth who said, when he was being talked over by the Treasurer in a 666 radio interview, that whenever Andrew Barr gets a bit nervous, whenever he was getting a bit close to the bone, he will do the fear and do the smear. We saw that earlier today in the vote on the no-confidence motion. When they do not have an argument to come
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