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in the context of the question just asked by Mr Smyth, do you determine from that that we promised to build a pool? Where—
Mr Smyth interjecting—
MR STANHOPE: Where, from the statement incorporated in that promise—
Mrs Burke: So you weren’t going to build it—
MR SPEAKER: Order! Members of the opposition!
MR STANHOPE: does Mr Seselja find the capacity to inform the Canberra Times and others yesterday—
Mrs Dunne: It’s a complete—
MR SPEAKER: Order, Mrs Dunne!
MR STANHOPE: that the Labor Party had promised a pool before the 2004 election? It is simply not true. It is false. There is the policy.
Mrs Burke: No intention.
MR SPEAKER: Order, Mrs Burke!
MR STANHOPE: “The Labor Party will reserve a site for a pool in Gungahlin for development when the population reaches the appropriate size.” Where is the promise in that statement to build a pool in Gungahlin?
Mrs Dunne: You just wanted to give the impression you would build a pool without actually building a pool.
Mr Pratt: Indian giver.
Mr Seselja: It’s an impression. You gave the impression.
MR STANHOPE: There isn’t one. We have the Leader of the Opposition yesterday actually not checking the facts, not bothering—
Opposition members interjecting—
MR SPEAKER: Order! Chief Minister, resume your seat, please. Constant interjections from the opposition benches will cease.
MR STANHOPE: Thank you, Mr Speaker. From that set of words—“the Labor Party will reserve a site for a pool in Gungahlin for development when the population reaches the appropriate size”—what leap does one take, what leap does the Leader of the Opposition take and what leap does the Deputy Leader of the Opposition take, from those words, to construct a promise to build a pool in Gungahlin? It defies any possible interpretation of those words. Which of the words “reserve a site for a pool in Gungahlin” constitutes a promise to build a pool?
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