Page 5580 - Week 13 - Wednesday, 17 November 2010
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MR STANHOPE: I am addressing you, Madam Assistant Speaker. I am not looking at you, but I am addressing the chair.
MADAM ASSISTANT SPEAKER: I am sorry, if you have your back to me, Mr Stanhope, you are not addressing the chair.
MR STANHOPE: I do not have to look at you, Mrs Dunne—
MADAM ASSISTANT SPEAKER: No, but you do not turn your back to me either.
MR STANHOPE: to address this chamber or to address the chair. I will stand as I seek or wish to stand, Madam Assistant Speaker.
I have to say that I am interested to hear today that Mr Seselja and Mr Smyth have indicated that they have spoken with Col Alexander and with Ross Barrett.
Mr Seselja: I didn’t say I had spoken to Col Alexander. I said I had spoken to Ross Barrett.
MR STANHOPE: Well, Mr Smyth did.
Mr Smyth: Yes, I did.
MR STANHOPE: Mr Smyth and Mr Seselja have just indicated that they have spoken with, consulted with, CIC through Col Alexander, the principal of that company in relation to this, and presumably representing the views of Col Alexander and Ross Barrett—and that is the issue that I will take the opportunity to check with them in relation to your attitude to—
Mr Smyth: You are so disingenuous.
MR STANHOPE: You are no longer accepting that? So are you saying that they did not agree with you? Is that what you are saying, Mr Smyth?
Mr Smyth: I did not say that at all. I have not said anything.
MR STANHOPE: Yes, you did. You just said that I was being disingenuous. So what is it that Mr Barrett and Mr Alexander said to you in relation to the outrageous beating up of this particular issue by the Liberal Party? Do they support your position in relation to open space in Crace? Do they support your position in relation to increased density in Crace? Did they talk to you about what it was that those young homebuyers and other homebuyers that are buying into Crace and equally into Casey are looking for in terms of product?
Did they indicate to you that the area of open space within Crace is of the order of 25 per cent of the development—far in excess of the standard that applies across most of the ACT? Did they indicate that to you and did they ask you why you were making the outrageous statements that you were making about a lack of open space, no
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