Page 527 - Week 02 - Tuesday, 8 March 2011
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MR SESELJA: You know what is grubby—
MR ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Order!
MR SESELJA: Lying to the people before an election—
MR ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Order!
Members interjecting—
MR ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Mr Seselja, resume your seat. I have a nice sense of humour and I am a really nice bloke. Let us not stuff that up. Let us not have a cacophony of sound that can be heard in Yass. Mr Seselja, please, there is a microphone there; that is sufficient. Chief Minister, please do not bait the Leader of the Opposition. Thank you.
MR SESELJA: Thank you, Mr Assistant Speaker. It is grubby to go to an election and say you are not going to close schools and then turn around six weeks later and close them. What does that say about your trustworthiness? What does that say about your honesty? What does that say about your decency when, six weeks after an election, you go back on it.
We are seeing it now federally with the carbon tax, and we are seeing this government backing it sight unseen. They do not know what it is going to be worth to the people of the ACT, but they will back it because it is their Labor mates, regardless of what they said before the election.
Katy Gallagher has form on this. Her form on it is to look people in the eye and go to an election on a promise that she has no intention of keeping. We could look at what this government has promised the Greens as part of their agreement in order to stay in office. They have made these promises to stay in office. Of course, we know they are not going to deliver on many of them. They simply cannot. A guaranteed bus frequency of 30 minutes—
Mr Stanhope interjecting—
MR ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Order, Chief Minister. You are really upsetting me.
MR SESELJA: A guaranteed bus frequency of 30 minutes. How is that going? Here is one—introducing a levy on plastic bags. That was their promise. No promise to ban them; they could not deliver on that. Gungahlin shopfront is another. Ten per cent public housing. How is that going? There are hundreds of millions of dollars in promises that the Labor Party made in order to stay in office that they have no intention of keeping.
This goes to honesty; it goes to integrity. We have seen a pattern from this government and the Deputy Chief Minister, whether it is promises about education before the 2004 election or promises in relation to health before the 2008 election.
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