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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 7 Hansard (29 June) . . Page.. 2249 ..

MR HUMPHRIES: Today, this very day. At about 8.30 this evening-it may be about 1 o'clock tomorrow morning-or whenever it may be-

Opposition members interjecting-

MR SPEAKER: Order, please! I would hope that all of you would like to be here to vote on the budget. Do not push your luck.

MR HUMPHRIES: Thank you, Mr Speaker. At about 1 o'clock this morning or something like that-

Mr Berry: That is the only way they are going to get it passed.

MR SPEAKER: I warn you, Mr Berry.

MR HUMPHRIES: I will be putting up my hand then and voting for this budget, to put another $10 million into policing in this territory. What are you mob going to be doing at that time?

MR SPEAKER: Do you have a supplementary question, Mr Hargreaves?

MR HARGREAVES: Yes, thank you, Mr Speaker. I will not take four minutes to ask the supplementary question and I would ask you to enforce that on the response, please. My supplementary question to the minister is: given that in 1995 there were 1,389 assaults in the ACT and that they had risen in 1999 to 1,672, what do you say to the little old lady who was knocked to the ground and had her handbag stolen in broad daylight in Furzer Street, Phillip, the other day, or the single mother who had her car stolen from her front lawn in Page, or those people who only recently have been assaulted in their own homes by burglars? Minister, what do you say to them?

MR HUMPHRIES: We are now on the law and order bandwagon, are we? I seem to recall Mr Hargreaves making comments a few months ago about how we should be throwing these hardened criminals in jail and throwing away the key at the same time or comments to that effect.

Mr Hargreaves: I have been Gary-ed again.

MR HUMPHRIES: No, I quoted you in the house at the time, Mr Hargreaves. Go back and check the record and you will see what you had to say. If you want to go into that sort of hysteria about Canberra being something like New York, go right ahead and do it. You know that Canberra is nothing-

Mr Hargreaves: While you slept.

MR HUMPHRIES: If you listen to the answer, instead of interjecting, you might learn something, Mr Hargreaves. You know that what you have had to say is about scaremongering.

Mr Hargreaves: You have done nothing.

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