Page 1259 - Week 04 - Tuesday, 23 March 2010
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MR SPEAKER: Thank you, Mr Hanson. Where I heard Mr Stanhope going was—I understood you were making points about previous rulings, Mr Stanhope. Please do not head down the path of going through the whole document.
MR STANHOPE: I will not.
Mr Hanson: It is a good document, though.
MR STANHOPE: Yes, actually—in responding to that—it is a good document.
The second promise is that all funding provided by the government in previous budgets to establish an infrastructure plan was to be removed as a saving. I had not noticed that before. The Liberal Party were going to cut all of the money that we made provision for in the budget for the actual development of an infrastructure plan.
MR SPEAKER: Thank you, Mr Stanhope.
MR STANHOPE: That is what they think about infrastructure plans: they were going to remove all funding from the budget for that—
MR SPEAKER: Thank you, Mr Stanhope.
MR STANHOPE: Well, as a hypothetical then: in question time today what would the Liberal Party say if Mr Hargreaves, in asking a minister a question, was to ask the Attorney-General—the Attorney-General with responsibility, say, for electoral matters—a question about his view and his attitude to the fundraising practices of the 250 Club and the way in which it is reported.
Opposition members interjecting—
MR STANHOPE: One wonders about that as a hypothetical question.
Mrs Dunne: Mr Speaker—
MR SPEAKER: Order, Mr Stanhope!
MR STANHOPE: The Liberal Party would jump and say—
Mrs Dunne: Point of order, Mr Speaker.
MR STANHOPE: “Well, the 250 Club has got nothing to do with Mr Corbell’s ministerial responsibilities—
Mrs Dunne: Point of order, Mr Speaker.
MR SPEAKER: Order, Mr Stanhope. Thank you. Stop the clocks.
Mrs Dunne: I would like to raise a point of order. The Chief Minister is wandering way off the point and referring to how Mr Hargreaves might ask a question. If he
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