Page 3334 - Week 09 - Wednesday, 19 August 2009
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Mr Corbell: What about the board? Don’t mention the board.
MR SESELJA: And it is that point that the Greens do not seem to fathom. Mr Corbell, I am sure, fathoms it but does not want to talk about it. He does not want to talk about the fact that the person leading the investigation—
Mr Corbell: What about the board, Zed? What about the four members of the board, Zed?
MR SPEAKER: Order! Mr Corbell, you have made your interjection.
MR SESELJA: The person leading the investigation is a public servant. In any other field—
Mr Corbell: What about the board of the commission?
MR SPEAKER: Mr Corbell!
MR SESELJA: If the Auditor General was a public servant, the Auditor-General would not be able to be as independent as the Auditor General currently is. Mr Corbell did not want to talk about the issue.
Mr Corbell: What about the board, Zed?
MR SESELJA: Who sits on the board? The CEO does sit on the board. The CEO, who would lead the investigation, also sits on the board and is a public servant.
Mrs Dunne: On a point of order, Mr Speaker: Mr Speaker, you have spoken to Mr Corbell. He continues to behave in an entirely disorderly fashion.
MR SPEAKER: Mr Corbell. I think you have made the point with your intervention. Let us keep it quiet and hear Mr Seselja.
MR SESELJA: Thank you, Mr Speaker. We go back to what Mr Stanhope thinks of this issue. This is the head of this government that may or may not be investigated, and he says:
It would be bizarre in the extreme if the Labor Party, as the owner of an asset, says we no longer wish to sell this asset but a group, albeit members of the Labor Party and directors of the board, says well we are going to sell the asset anyway.
He believes they own this asset. The Labor Party see this as their asset, to do with as they wish. The gaming act says that the board needs to be independent, not subject to direction or control from outside parties. Yet the Chief Minister of this territory has made it emphatically clear that he and his party own this asset. It is their asset to do what they will with.
That goes to the heart of some of the conflicts here. That goes to the heart of some of the issues that were raised by the president of the Labor Club Group. The president of
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