Page 3467 - Week 08 - Wednesday, 18 August 2010
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Mr Seselja: She was lying; you are right.
MS HUNTER: I know you do not like to hear this—
Mr Hanson: And it is on the Hansard.
MS HUNTER: I know it is upsetting. That is because what you have is—
Mr Hanson: Beauty!
Mr Seselja: You just called Lin a liar.
MR SPEAKER: Order!
Mr Hanson: You disputed her figures.
MS HUNTER: your federal party basically—
Mr Hanson: No wonder Mr Rattenbury wants to shut that one down.
MR SPEAKER: Mr Hanson! Members! Mr Seselja—
Mr Hanson: How embarrassing.
MR SPEAKER: Mr Hanson! Members, Mr Seselja gave quite a contentious speech which he was not heckled through. I expect other members to be afforded a similar standard of behaviour. Is there anything else you would like to say, Mr Hanson?
Mr Hanson: No, thank you, Mr Speaker.
MR SPEAKER: Thank you. Ms Hunter, you have the floor.
MS HUNTER: Thank you, Mr Speaker. It does not surprise me that I am being heckled, because it is a very hard thing to sell out there for this election this Saturday. It is very hard to sell to the people of Canberra that there will be massive job losses which will impact on many families. It is very hard to sell. This is one anti-family policy—I would say it is the major one—that is out there in this election campaign at the moment.
We know we are a small and vulnerable economy and we depend on the economic activity generated from public service jobs. Without them we will quite possibly face another recession, as was the case the last time the public service was cut so heavily.
As I said, we must recognise where we are today and what drives our economy now—that is, commonwealth expenditure. Such a reduction in the territory expenditure as is being proposed is reprehensible. The Canberra bashing by the Liberal Party really needs to be called what it is—Canberra bashing.
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