Page 2843 - Week 08 - Tuesday, 5 August 2008
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Mr Hargreaves: Page 7.
MR STANHOPE: Which page is that?
Mr Hargreaves: Budget paper 5, page 7.
MR STANHOPE: The budget papers for this year refer to the GDE duplication as a priority. Indeed, as I have indicated previously—
Mr Pratt interjecting—
MR SPEAKER: Order, Mr Pratt!
MR STANHOPE: the government was, over the last two months, giving serious consideration to issues around the merge difficulties. As is shown on page 7 of budget paper 5, the program makes early provision for future projects required to meet the transport demands as a result of urban growth. These include the duplication of the Gungahlin Drive extension.
Opposition members interjecting—
MR SPEAKER: Order, please. Mr Seselja.
MR SESELJA: Chief Minister, who is telling the truth: you or the president of the Gungahlin Community Council?
MR SPEAKER: Withdraw that. There is an imputation there that the Chief Minister was not—
MR SESELJA: Mr Speaker, I am asking him to tell us who is telling the truth. There are contradictory statements here.
MR SPEAKER: Chief Minister, I am sure you can fix that up.
MR STANHOPE: In terms of a serial offender in relation to the truth—we saw it just yesterday in relation to another capital project—there were claims by the leader of the Liberal Party that this government had promised, before the last election, to build a pool at Gungahlin. If we are talking about porkies, there is a porky for all porkies.
If we are going to talk about the truth—and the question goes to issues around who is telling the truth—let us concentrate a little bit on the most recent statements in relation to a capital project: a commitment made by my government. It was refuted. It was quite stunningly suggested by the Liberal Party that it was nothing but a grab for votes. This is the leader of the Opposition committing the Liberal Party absolutely and categorically to not building a pool for Gungahlin. And we do it on the basis of, “You promised this before the last election,” which we did not. We absolutely did not.
In the context of not telling the truth about commitments that this government has made in relation to Gungahlin, we have it out of the mouth of the Leader of the
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