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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2004 Week 01 Hansard (Wednesday, 11 February 2004) . . Page.. 191 ..

place? It was your use of the call-in powers. Your stand on this stuff leaves me gobsmacked, as does your loose acquaintance with the truth. (Extension of time granted.)

Mrs Dunne: Mr Speaker, I take a point of order. Mr Hargreaves has again indirectly accused Mr Smyth of lying, in this case because of his “loose acquaintance with the truth”. We have this all the time.

MR HARGREAVES: I said there is a loose acquaintance between the Leader of the Opposition and the truth, Mr Speaker. It is a loose acquaintance.

MR SPEAKER: This sort of language merely takes us towards disorder. I ask you to withdraw that and just proceed.

Mr Smyth: On the point of order, Mr Speaker—

MR SPEAKER: I have ordered it to be withdrawn. Withdraw it, Mr Hargreaves.

MR HARGREAVES: Happily withdrawn, Mr Speaker, just to make the Leader of the Opposition happy.

Mr Smyth: Thank you for the decision, Mr Speaker. I did get a small fact wrong. I did go and apologise to Mr Hargreaves, and I will clarify it later in the process.

MR HARGREAVES: I thank the Leader of the Opposition for that. Mr Speaker, when we start talking about people’s roles and how the community has been stoked, or otherwise, and whipped up, or otherwise, and is responding to people, or otherwise, we need to also go back just a little. Before the meeting in the Tuggeranong Community Centre, I had had no more than four emails on the subject, I had had no phone calls, I had had no—

Mrs Dunne: Because you’re a lost cause, Johnno!

Mrs Burke: A waste of time emailing you!

Mrs Cross: And he probably redirected them!

MR SPEAKER: Order, members of the opposition! Mr Hargreaves has the floor.

MR HARGREAVES: Thank you very much. I agree with my colleagues in here. I intend to foreshadow an amendment to Ms Tucker’s motion on cats to have Mrs Burke de-barked because I am sick and tired of her snapping. Just keep quite and listen and learn something!

We knew last August in the budget process—the Leader of the Opposition was the chair of the Estimates Committee, and I sat next to him as the deputy—that there was a proposal to add $4.8 million to Karralika. A press release was put out, and the shadow treasurer spots every press release around that time. If your office did not pick it up, consider your own position on that one.

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