Page 526 - Week 02 - Tuesday, 8 March 2011
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Ms Gallagher: Who said that, Mr Seselja?
MR SESELJA: Your spokesman. Apparently they were not speaking for you.
MADAM ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Ms Gallagher, do not interject.
MR SESELJA: Did you ever correct him? No. Because it went on further. Not only would they not be closing schools in that term, but they actually said that, with the school age population in Canberra decreasing in coming decades, closures would need to be looked at but that this would not be during Ms Gallagher’s time in politics. What a porky!
Mr Stanhope: On a point of order, Mr Assistant Speaker, could you please instruct the Leader of the Opposition to address the chair?
MR ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Mr Hargreaves): Thank you, very much, Chief Minister. I do not have to say anything, do I? You can tell by the look on my face, because you are an observant man, Leader of the Opposition. Thank you.
MR SESELJA: That was a pathetic point of order. I was looking directly there. He is such a—
MR ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Mr Seselja, before you go on, can I just offer you a little bit of gratuitous advice: please do not make reflections on other members.
MR SESELJA: He really does not get it. He is very sensitive, though. And you would be sensitive on an issue where your deputy had gone to the people and said, “No, no, no, no, we will not close schools. We won’t do it in the next term. It won’t happen during my time in politics.”
Mr Stanhope: On a point of order, Mr Assistant Speaker.
MR SESELJA: Can we stop the clock?
MR ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Stop the clock, please. Chief Minister.
Mr Stanhope: It is simply not true of the Leader of the Opposition to claim that the minister made that statement. She did not.
MR ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Chief Minister, with respect, I do not think that is a point of order. Leader of the Opposition, you have the floor.
MR SESELJA: This is getting vexatious, Mr Assistant Speaker.
Mr Stanhope interjecting—
MR SESELJA: You are pathetic. And the dishonesty of you and your government—
Mr Stanhope: What a grub!
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