Page 2144 - Week 06 - Thursday, 7 May 2009
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Where is their list of expenditure? Where is a list of revenue that is going to pay for it?
They have not even done budgeting 101, Mr Speaker. These guys ought to go and do budgeting 101. Maybe they could learn something. He could actually lean over to his left. He could lean over to his left to the grande dame of budgeting, Mrs Dunne, who knows everything. She is the one who said it was sending good money after bad in fixing up our schooling system. We are going to trust everything that she says when it comes to budgeting and about financial management! She was the one—
Mr Coe interjecting—
MR HARGREAVES: We talked about Mr Smyth having a bad time, you know. He has lost more elections than most people have had hot breakfasts, this bloke. The big loser—the winner as he thought. Mr Smyth—every time I come near him he loses another election. Maybe it is me.
We did ask the other day which one of these guys was a member of the Carnell cabinet. It was Mr Smyth. But I forgot. I must be getting a tad old, Ms Porter, because—
Mr Coe: Are you going to win another election?
MR HARGREAVES: Mate, I’ve won a heck of a lot more elections than you have. I would be a little quiet about that if I were you. I would be a bit quiet about that, son. I would be a bit quiet about it.
I forgot, of course, that, when Mr Humphries was the grand guru of the Liberal Party, Mrs Dunne worked for him. In fact, she worked for Mr Humphries when Mr Humphries lost the election. She worked for Mr Humphries when he lost an election, so it is fair to assume that she helped him lose the election.
Mrs Dunne: I also worked for him when he won elections.
MR HARGREAVES: That was a long time ago, wasn’t it?
Mrs Dunne: Yes.
MR HARGREAVES: That was when Pontius was a trainee “Pilate”, wasn’t it? Yes, mate. Sorry about that. It does not count. The Stanhope Labor government has won more elections on the trot than you blokes ever did.
Mr Speaker, this budget presented by Katy Gallagher is a responsible budget for the times. We have to be careful on how we go, but we have still got to look after the people that need us the most. This budget delivers that.
We are still waiting. I was hoping that one of the shadows at least would say, “This is how we are going to do it”—instead of just standing up and bagging us. They reckon they have got one. I heard Mr Seselja say on the radio this morning: “We’ve got it.
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