Page 541 - Week 02 - Tuesday, 10 February 2009
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things in the Assembly that are not true. He might take the opportunity now to withdraw it. Otherwise we will have to check the Hansard tonight and perhaps move a motion tomorrow. He has misled the Assembly—
MR SPEAKER: There is no point of order, Mr Seselja.
Mr Seselja: So he will continue to mislead.
MR STANHOPE: You can understand the sorts of thought processes that Mr Seselja is having as he tries to end the debate to cover his embarrassment. What do they think down at the Catholic Education Office? On Ross Solly’s program the other day the independent schools association supported it absolutely and without reservation. Then the president of the P&C association, following the independent schools association, expressed concern at the Liberal Party’s decision to oppose the package.
Mr Seselja: They haven’t got your letter yet, the P&C council? Have they got your letter?
MR STANHOPE: I did not write to them. I wrote to every individual P&C—
Mr Seselja: Well we are looking forward to seeing that letter—
MR STANHOPE: Every single P&C association and every—
Mr Seselja: to see if there is a skerrick of truth in it.
MR STANHOPE: parents and friends association in the ACT have it. I am sure they will be in touch with you soon.
Mr Seselja: We look forward to it.
MR STANHOPE: I think we sent out almost 200 copies. (Time expired.)
MR COE (Ginninderra) (5.38): It seems that the old truism “the more things change the more they stay the same” is as applicable today to the Labor Party as ever before. At the last federal election the Labor Party won government nationally by shifting to the right. The Leader of the Opposition at the time, now Prime Minister, famously declared on You Tube and in TV commercials that he was an economic conservative. Indeed, tens of thousands of people saw that clip online.
The voting public were led to believe that the Labor Party had finally beaten their addiction to deficit and debt and had learnt the lessons of the so-called recession we had to have. Indeed, in the lead-up to the first Rudd government budget we saw the Prime Minister declaring the need for large surpluses and the need to fight the inflation genies that had been let out of the box.
MR SPEAKER: Order, Mr Coe! The time for this discussion has expired.
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