Page 5931 - Week 14 - Wednesday, 8 December 2010
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Assange—that “it is important that we know what drives governments to make decisions”.
The Greens will support Julian Assange, but they will not support the Canberra Liberals, who wanted some simple accounting advice. That would fit into the category of knowledge that drives governments to make decisions about Calvary. Clearly, it does.
Ms Gallagher: Come on; you are scrambling now, Jeremy. Back on the subject.
MR HANSON: Do you think I am struggling? I do not think I am. I have got plenty more quotes of where the Greens have fallen in step, lock, stock and barrel, in support of this government. It could be on censure motions, as we saw yesterday. There might be clearly contradictory evidence given by a minister about prisoner numbers. He was saying that this was going to be a prison with a current bed configuration that would do us for 25 years. We ask him in question time, “Is that true?” He says, “Yes.” In answer to the very next question, he is explaining why he is retrofitting bed bunks into a prison. No, they do not want any further discussion on that; they closed down a possible motion to discuss that. But when it comes to Julian Assange, they want all that information.
Quite clearly, the Canberra Liberals will not be supporting the Greens’ amendment. As we have said consistently in this place, again and again, it is yet another attempt by the Greens. When the Canberra Liberals, the opposition here, is the only party that has continued to demand information, to hold this government to account, the Greens are refusing to allow us to produce it.
MS BRESNAN (Brindabella): Mr Speaker, I rise under standing order 47. I have been misquoted in Mr Hanson’s speech; I seek leave to clear that up.
MR SPEAKER: You have leave, Ms Bresnan.
MS BRESNAN: Thank you. Mr Hanson stated that I had removed from his motion that the minister denied that complaints had been made. In fact, it is in my amendment. It actually states at (1)(a):
… in early February 2010, the Minister for Health denied that she had received any serious complaints …
So that is actually in the motion.
Mr Hanson: I seek leave to speak again on the motion.
Leave not granted.
MR SMYTH (Brindabella) (12.22): It is clear that hypocrisy is alive and well in this place.
MR SPEAKER: Mr Smyth!
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