Page 3684 - Week 12 - Wednesday, 23 October 2013
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MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Stop the clock, please. Mr Hanson, resume your seat.
MR HANSON: I might remind you that Mr Barr is warned.
MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Mr Hanson, please do not give me advice. I am about to give you some advice—and Mr Barr. Mr Barr, please do not have a conversation with Mr Hanson across the chamber. I know Mr Hanson is responding to you and it is difficult for both of you not to respond to one another, but I would like members to remain silent while Mr Hanson is speaking. And Mr Hanson, address your remarks through the chair, and not to Mr Barr; that will be very helpful.
MR HANSON: Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. There are some recent examples of this government and its failings. There is Uriarra Village. There was much celebrating in the chamber yesterday and front-page pictures in the Canberra Times, but where were the pictures of the people of Uriarra Village who had come in and equally filled this chamber at the dismal decisions by this government and the failure of this government to listen to them about their concerns? We have seen issues of police safety in Civic. There are the numerous problems with planning laws, some highlighted by Mr Wall today. And there are the issues of housing affordability that we were discussing yesterday.
The priorities of this government are simply wrong. There can be no better example of that than the Skywhale. I hope that that is the subject of some discussion by government members today. The Skywhale was delivered by this government—the bloated balloon that even Mr Stanhope said was a political mistake. Even Mr Stanhope, the great champion of public art, thought it was a disgrace. I look forward to them patting themselves on the back about the delivery of Skywhale, which is probably the most notable thing out of the centenary that has been delivered by this government.
This government wants to be the most green, the most left, in Australia. That is clearly where it is taking us. This is a government that is evasive and this is a government that is not delivering.
In contrast, as I highlighted before, we have the very good motions that have been put here today by the members of the opposition. I commend my members. I take this opportunity to say well done.
What we see here are three new members that have come into this place. We have seen the work done by Mrs Jones, with the motion that she will be running today on road safety in Gungahlin and her approach—more concern about doorstop to the bus stop and action on the ground rather than endless talk about city to the lake and more slideshows about something this government is unlikely ever to deliver. We have Mr Wall and his actions on things like Uriarra, his work on NDIS and his motion today about the Kingswim school. Ms Lawder, again a great community activist, has come into this place as part of the renewal of this team. We have seen the sorts of motions that she is bringing forward, addressing community safety today at Trinity school, making a real impact.
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