Page 2742 - Week 08 - Tuesday, 23 June 2009
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builders in this town who were making an effort to improve housing affordability in Canberra. Isn’t it interesting, Madam Assistant Speaker, what some of those builders have said? For example, Mr Andrew Kerec, the managing director of Renaissance Building and Design, a very well known local Canberra based building company, said:
I was dismayed to learn that the Liberal Party had made what can only be described as an unwarranted and insulting attack on the integrity of the program.
Mr Hanson: Is that in response to Mr Stanhope’s letter, in response to false allegations made by—
MR CORBELL: Wait, Mr Hanson, he goes on to say:
I can only assume that they have completely failed to properly inform and educate themselves on the program and the package being offered.
They do not like it, Madam Assistant Speaker, but it is the truth. They were caught out with a nasty, grubby little claim and it is a good lesson to Mr Coe that just because you are in the estimates committee it does not mean that no-one is paying attention. You have been caught out badly. Mr Kerec went on to say:
I stand with the other panel members—and 100 per cent by the LDA and their excellent administration of this program.
Indeed, Michael O’Brien from RAM Constructions, which was also involved in the OwnPlace scheme, said in part in this letter:
We fail to understand why such serious allegations can be made without any apparent evidence to support it or, if there is evidence to support it, why the allegation is not made in full detail, including the name of the builder alleged to be involved.
The coward’s castle indeed, Madam Assistant Speaker.
Let us go on to Mr Valdi Luks who wrote on behalf of GE Shaw. GE Shaw said:
G.E. Shaw & Associates is keen to preserve the high reputation of the OwnPlace program and shares your disappointment in regard to the allegations of price gouging.
AV Jennings, that radical left-wing organisation, said:
In response to the specific allegations that a builder is profiteering and charging at least $60,000 more for the house component than they would expect to pay—
Opposition members interjecting—
MR CORBELL: They do not like it, but they were caught out. And they were caught out badly on this matter. It is interesting that when the Liberal Party do not like an
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