Page 1463 - Week 05 - Wednesday, 4 May 2016
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achieve a reform I am the worst person in the world. Welcome to Jeremy Hanson’s world view—so partisan, so angry, so resentful of achievement and reform.
Here we go with his amendment railing against public transport, belying the fact that health and education have been cut significantly by his federal colleagues, ignoring the fact that the national partnership on concessions which provided support to the states and territories to assist low income earners was cut in the 2014 budget. That gap has been filled by my government and will continue to be filled by my government. We are reforming our city’s tax system to ensure it is fairer, simpler and more efficient and provides a revenue base to provide health, education and concession services into the future.
He is opposed to that and he will put stamp duty back up. He will put taxes back on insurance duties. He will make life harder for low income Canberrans because that is in his DNA. It is the DNA of the Liberal Party.
The government will not be supporting Mr Hanson’s amendment today, and we will continue to focus on what matters for Canberrans: jobs, health and education, community services and high quality municipal services. That has been our focus. That will continue to be our focus, and Mr Hanson can play the angry man in the corner as much as he wants. Bring it on.
Mr Hanson: A personal explanation?
MADAM SPEAKER: Personal explanations are at the end of debate. Standing order 46 is used at the end of debate. Standing order 47 is used if you think you have been misunderstood in something that you said in debate. So standing order 46 at the end, I think.
Mr Hanson: So 47 then?
MADAM SPEAKER: Standing order 47 but only if you think that there was something that was misunderstood when you spoke.
MR HANSON: I think so. Under standing order 47, Mr Barr stated that I had made an interjection that—
MADAM SPEAKER: No, that is standing order 46, thanks, Mr Hanson. Can we do that at the end.
DR BOURKE (Ginninderra—Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs, Minister for Children and Young People, Minister for Disability, Minister for Small Business and the Arts and Minister for Veterans and Seniors) (11.02): Over the past two years the Canberra community has been hit by fiscal and economic shocks that have been the making of this federal Liberal government. Their cuts to spending and cuts in the number of federal employees were worse than predicted.
The federal Liberal government reduced the territory’s expected national health reform agreement funding by about a quarter of a billion dollars over the four years.
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