Page 3117 - Week 10 - Thursday, 18 October 2007
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making into the future. What have made an enormous amount of difference are the initiatives my colleague here Mr Corbell has introduced since 2001 that I am hoping to build slightly upon a little bit further into the future.
Mr Pratt: Do not hold your breath.
Mr Stefaniak: Is there a busway there?
MR SPEAKER: Order! Mr Stefaniak and Mr Pratt, cease interjecting.
MR HARGREAVES: When do I get my boxful of table tennis balls? I have got to get the boxful of table tennis balls. Open up, here it comes.
MR SPEAKER: Direct your comments through the chair.
MR HARGREAVES: Mr Pratt is criticising the work of an Assembly committee. This Assembly committee has given this government an enormous amount of information to move forward with.
Mr Pratt: They wimped.
MR HARGREAVES: In fact, Mr Pratt now refers to the committee as having wimped. Mr Speaker, I think that, whilst it might not parliamentary, it is certainly discourteous, which is to be expected, I suppose.
But the government is moving forward on these transport initiatives. It is moving forward on transport initiatives across the whole spectrum: pedestrians, motorists, bus travellers, bike travellers, motorcycle travellers. It has to be an aggregated and consolidated approach. And I thank very much the committee for the work that they have put forward. It has informed the government. When we come forward with the response, Mr Speaker, you will see the value that the government has taken from that committee report. You will see how, in fact, a committee and an executive can work well together, despite the protestations of the shadow minister for transport and despite the dissenting report of Mr Seselja.
Mr Pratt: We are not excited by the prospect.
MR SPEAKER: Order, Mr Pratt! I have called you to order before.
MR HARGREAVES: And screaming at me across the chamber is not going to alter the credibility of the committee one bit. We know—the government knows—that this committee report is a particularly valuable one. What is the real reason why they do not like it? Because Mr Seselja put in a dissenting report, probably dictated by somebody across the chamber, I expect.
Mrs Dunne: On a point of order, Mr Speaker.
MR SPEAKER: Withdraw.
Mrs Dunne: That is an imputation against the independence of the member.
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