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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2002 Week 8 Hansard (26 June) . . Page.. 2294 ..

MR HARGREAVES (continuing):

costs over a million bucks. What about the guy who buys it for $150,000? Go and have a look at the figures, Mr Smyth-he has got a reduction.

Mate, I can read it in the Canberra Times, I can listen to the Treasurer talking about it, and I can read it in the documents. Perhaps you ought to get onto one of the school buses, go back to school and learn how to read! I was really chuffed when he said, "Well done." I thought that was great-I thought that was terrific, Mr Speaker. But he then went on and wrecked it. He was doing so when he said, "Thank you very much to the Labor government for doing good things." He was really in front of the pack at that point. Then he slid right back down the guts to the back again, when he said, "Every initiative-the Libs were gunna do it." How many times have we heard that today? But you did not do it.

You talked about the Drakeford Drive thing. For six years, you were gunna do it. Labor did it in six months-bang! It is in the thing-they are going to have the work done. What happened? No! I had to badger you. For three years, I had to badger this bloke, when he was a minister, to try to have at least one complete package. No, he had to go down silly street, see the silly roundabout and correct that silly intersection. What did he do? He threw $800,000 straight down the toilet. He would have been better off using the $800,000 to further the design work that was needed to continue the project.

Mr Speaker, he talks about the child health and dental unit as being a previous Liberal idea under Michael Moore's regime-that nefarious coalition which existed, that strange bedfellow system-the one that had the 40 pieces of silver attached to it. That was their idea, was it?

We salute you for having a good idea. But we do not salute you because you did not actually do it. That is another one of your gunnas, straight out of the school of artillery. Then you go and make a heap of noise about the charges, the parking in Tuggeranong and all those sorts of things. Good on you! They are nothing more than smokescreens.

They are nothing more than smokescreens, and you know damn well that is true. The parking in Tuggeranong-nobody likes it, and nobody has said they like it. This government said they did not like it, but it is going to be done. You are telling me that the people who live in Mr Pratt's suburb of Isaacs-not in Tuggeranong, not in the three suburbs of South Woden-shop in Woden. Mr Pratt himself shops in Woden and he has to pay for parking. You are saying that other people do not have to do so-and you talk about a party of equity. What absolute rubbish are you!

Mrs Dunne: The battlers in Banks will really thank you for that, Mr Hargreaves.

MR HARGREAVES: Mrs Dunne, you have arrived in the chamber. I suggest you go back upstairs, take a Bex, have a good lie down, and come back.

Mr Speaker, he has tried to bag the Downer-Woden cycle path. He says there is a problem with the calculations-$1.75 million. According to my understanding of things today, their funding for the Gungahlin Drive extension would have had it ending in a four-lane highway smack outside the door of the AIS. Good on you! Get your reputation straight before you hit me. Get yourself straight before you come to see me.

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