Page 1875 - Week 05 - Thursday, 6 May 2010

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MS GALLAGHER: I actually think it is probably a good thing for a Treasurer to have some communist links.

Mr Hargreaves: Point of order, Mr Speaker.

MS GALLAGHER: You know, it evens out some of that economic rationalism that you just have to have as Treasurer.

Mr Smyth interjecting—

MR SPEAKER: Order! Mr Smyth!

MS GALLAGHER: Thank you, Mr Speaker. The government has not been hiding behind the commonwealth stimulus money. Indeed, I think what you have used—you have tried to use it for your advantage to include it in the base.

Mr Smyth: That’s not the question. Which figures—

MR SPEAKER: Mr Smyth!

MS GALLAGHER: That is what is wrong.

Mr Smyth: She’s not answering the question.

MS GALLAGHER: No, you asked me what is wrong with your figures.

Mr Smyth: No, no. I asked which were incorrect.

MS GALLAGHER: You included the commonwealth stimulus money in the base—

Mr Smyth: Which figure’s incorrect?

Mr Stanhope: I raise a point of order, Mr Speaker.

MR SPEAKER: Order, Treasurer. Stop the clocks, thank you.

Mr Stanhope: Mr Speaker, you have taken the step of formally warning the Leader of the Opposition and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition that if they did not desist—

Mr Smyth: That is not true.

Mr Stanhope: You were just formally warned, I understand.

MR SPEAKER: Mr Seselja was.

Mr Smyth: Yeah, not me.

Mr Stanhope: So Mr Smyth is free to continue to interject, is he?


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