Page 2732 - Week 07 - Tuesday, 28 June 2011
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MR HARGREAVES: Yes, back down. But of course you have to pay credit where it is due. The Liberal Party, according to Mrs Dunne, is a can-do type party. Right? We have heard the can-do thing before. There was a previous Liberal government, and I think Mr Smyth was a member of that ministry—in the can-do ministry. These were the people who—I will tell you some of the things that they could do. They could paint grass green. They could deliver a stadium—not on time and not on budget, but with an illegal overnight loan that cost the Chief Minister her job. That is what they can do. And they had no corporate support for the project either.
Mr Coe interjecting—
MR HARGREAVES: I will just treat your remarks with the contempt that they are due, Mr Coe.
Mr Coe: Oh really?
MR HARGREAVES: Yes. They can destroy the third hospital in this town. And now they are criticising us for what? For building a third hospital. A bit inconsistent. How about the “feel the power” campaign? Let us stick it on all of our number plates. And how about this one: “We will put it on the side of an ex-World War II aeroplane. We will paint it. We will paint the airplane with ‘feel the power’ on the side”? And do you know what? It never got off the ground. The whole program did not get off the ground and neither did the airplane. Do they tell us how much that cost? No.
What about all of these capital work gurus over here and all their government and planning ministers? How about their Hall-Kinleyside debacle when they did not know the difference between a block and a lease.
Mr Coe interjecting—
MR HARGREAVES: They would not have a clue what was a block and what was a lease. Go back and read your Hansard, sunshine. Have a read of your Hansard. If you can do it, read your Hansard—and the Canberra Times if you like. Do your research. You will find that thing exposed for the rort that it was. It was nothing short of a rort. You came within an insect’s elbow of getting charged over that rort—the Hall-Kinleyside debacle. It just exposed what a ramshackle mob you really were. And now that is a can-do! That is a can-do! I have to tell you that it is scary. It is scary if they can do and they do do—talking about do dos.
Mr Coe interjecting—
MR HARGREAVES: I can get into all sorts of trouble for putting out personal attacks. Mr Coe can sit there like a sanctimonious, pontificating question mark and say—
Mr Coe interjecting—
MR HARGREAVES: Come on, Mr Coe; stop being a gutless wonder. Stop being a gutless wonder. You can’t take it; don’t dish it out.
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