Page 4404 - Week 10 - Thursday, 23 September 2010
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This is the minister who was secretly negotiating this deal, pursuing this flawed strategy, to throw away $77 million of taxpayers’ money and she did not tell anyone about it. She went to the election claiming to have all her plans on the table, and she was not telling the truth—again. So what is really important is that we try to save the community from this minister’s judgement, because until now on the process of Calvary her judgement has been sorely lacking.
There is no better example of that than the fact that, if it had been up to Katy Gallagher—if Katy Gallagher had got her way—we would have already lost $77 million for no reason. We would have thrown away $77 million of taxpayers’ money, because Katy Gallagher was desperate to pursue this deal.
She was desperate to pursue it in secret, and that is fundamental to this motion—that it has been handled secretly; it has been handled behind closed doors. The community only found out about it after—
Members interjecting—
MR SPEAKER: Colleagues, Mr Seselja is trying to speak.
MR SESELJA: Thanks. Mr Hargreaves, just get back in your box. Mr Speaker—
Mr Hargreaves: I object to that.
MR SESELJA: We have been getting lectures from Mr Hargreaves for the last couple of days, so we might just ask him to show the courtesy that he asks from everyone else.
Members interjecting—
MR SPEAKER: Members, order! Order, Mr Hargreaves!
MR SESELJA: Back in your box, John, back in your box.
MR SPEAKER: Let us just return to the debate, Mr Seselja.
MR SESELJA: Thank you, Mr Speaker; I will return to it.
Ms Gallagher: I feel so sorry for you.
MR SESELJA: Katy feels sorry for me; I am very pleased. I am very pleased to have Ms Gallagher interjecting. This is the minister who wanted to throw away $77 million, and she would have. If it was not for the fact that there were voices against her, she would have thrown away $77 million of taxpayers’ money. What we now need to do is to try to ensure that we get some light shed on this process, because when there was no light shed on the process, when it was left to behind closed doors dealings from this minister, it was flawed.
And it did not take a genius to figure it out. It did not take a change in the accounting standard for this minister, who should have known, to see that this process was flawed.
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