Page 159 - Week 01 - Wednesday, 16 February 2011
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Mr Hargreaves, you said that you have not been called on to apologise. I am formally calling on you to apologise to the Mackay family for the hurt that has been caused to them. I will leave that for your conscience to handle. I will certainly leave that with you in case you have not been formally asked. As we said, we will not be supporting the amendments to the motion.
MR HARGREAVES (Brindabella) (12.27): I thank Ms Bresnan for the indulgence. I omitted to actually table a document that I wanted to table. I seek leave from the chamber to formally table the document from the Mon community.
Leave granted.
MR HARGREAVES: I table the following paper:
National Multicultural Festival—Proud to be Mon, a day of full pride—Copy of email from Joel Lyneham to Jim Mallett, dated 16 February 2011.
MS BRESNAN (Brindabella) (12.28): I will be very brief in speaking to Mr Hargreaves’s amendments. I appreciate what he is saying. I think that promoting mutual respect and understanding is a very important thing to recognise. Harmony, respect—I think we can argue about the words, but I think we have a notion of what we are trying to say. I support Mr Doszpot’s amendment. We will not be supporting the other amendments. I do see what Mr Hargreaves is saying, but I think we need to be consulting about different events and concepts of the Multicultural Festival. I do not think that is something that has happened. We need to look at other ways of having exchanges and discussions between different groups and I do not think that has been happening. I appreciate what Mr Hargreaves is saying, but we will not be supporting the amendments.
MR SPEAKER: The question is that Mr Hargreaves’s amendments to Mr Doszpot’s proposed amendment be agreed to.
Question resolved in the negative.
MR SPEAKER: The question now is that Mr Doszpot’s amendment to Mr Hargreaves’s motion be agreed to.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
MR HARGREAVES (Brindabella) (12.29): To close the debate, I first wish to address Mr Doszpot’s obsession with the Al Grassby statue once more and finally. Firstly, I sincerely regret the pain the Mackay family may have had. Had I had an opportunity to talk to them beforehand I may have been able to have developed some other way of recognising their contribution, but I had no idea that they were in town. Please understand that.
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