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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2002 Week 8 Hansard (27 June) . . Page.. 2381 ..

MR CORNWELL (continuing):

It had been so long, that people saw this motley crew (now sitting over there) wandering the streets making grand promises and they mistook them for a party that would actually look after their interests.

They forgot that someone had to foot the bill-and I suspect the battlers never thought it would be them.

They either forgot or never suspected that Labor would inevitably ramp up taxes, they forgot that this party has a reputation in Canberra for savage taxing of both the well off and the battlers alike.

And it is clear in this Budget, Mr Speaker, that the battler cops it just as hard anyone else.

Mr Speaker, due to my illness I will make more specific and expanded comments during the latter stages of the Budget process.

However, I will briefly mention at this time a couple of points regarding transport, youth and women.

Despite claims by the government that the budget contains a sustainable transport strategy this is not correct.

What it does contain is a random collection of transport-related events-all of which will cost the community in one way or another.

MR SPEAKER: Order! Something has just been brought to my attention which I know you will be interested in, Mr Cornwell. Pardon me for interrupting you for a moment. I would just refer you to page 489 of the House of Representatives Practice where it is pointed out that a member is not allowed to use unparliamentary words by the device of putting them in someone else's mouth or in the course of a quotation.

MR CORNWELL: Thank you.

MR SPEAKER: I note that you earlier withdrew the remarks which I drew to your attention.

MR CORNWELL: I will speak to Mrs Cross most severely, Mr Speaker.

MR SPEAKER: It still doesn't get you off the hook, though.

MR CORNWELL: No, but it tries to pretty well. I did withdraw. I repeat:

What it does contain is a random collection of transport-related events-all of which will cost the community in one way or another.

To try and interpret these events as some kind of coordinated strategy I think takes us into the realm of Mr Quinlan's-

this is a quote and I don't know where it is from, Mr Speaker-

"congenitally stupid".

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