Page 275 - Week 01 - Wednesday, 15 February 2012
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because Mr Seselja loves the view and the smell of the Paterson’s curse that sits in that horse paddock down below.
It is an absolutely pathetic exercise of grandstanding. This motion brought forward was nothing short of a publicity grab for Mr Smyth. I am not surprised about it, and I do not knock him. I knock all the rest of them for supporting him, because I just cannot understand why they would. Mr Seselja, on the other hand, pops down here with an alacrity never seen before in this place. We have heard this: “Zed is dead.” RiotACT is full of it: “He is gone. Zed is dead. Zed is in bed.” Mr Speaker, he comes down here—
Mr Seselja interjecting—
MR SPEAKER: Order! Mr Seselja, thank you.
MR HARGREAVES: You know, Mr Speaker, how easy it is. I pride myself on my fishing ability, Mr Speaker. All I have got to do is snap my fingers—bang—and they are like crows on a fence. They are like crows on a fence, this lot. They are jacks-in-the-box: up they pop. We can drag Mr Seselja out of his cave any time with his little fangs hanging out ready to go and do somebody an injury. He cannot do me an injury, Mr Speaker. They are not capable of it.
What have we got? We have got them all running down to the electorate so that Mr Seselja can be protected. Let’s see how good these guys are. Let’s see. What do they do, Mr Speaker? They enlist that warrior from Tharwa. How good is that? I congratulate them. If only I could pick somebody from the Liberal Party to run, I would pick Mr Val Jeffery. This is the same man who said: “I am an independent. I am going to run for the Community Alliance Party because I am not really anything other than a Liberal. Those people in the Assembly—they are a pack of mongrels. They are not going to do it.” And what happens? He then comes out and has the stupidity and the temerity to out himself as a closet Liberal. Forty years he was a member. Forty years!
Mrs Dunne: Point of order, Mr Speaker.
MR SPEAKER: Yes, Mrs Dunne. Order! Stop the clock, thank you.
Mrs Dunne: Can I seek your ruling on whether it is appropriate for a member of this place to name a person, a member of the public, in this place and then call them stupid?
MR HARGREAVES: I take that back, Mr Speaker—quite happily.
MR SPEAKER: Withdraw?
MR HARGREAVES: Yes.
MR SPEAKER: Thank you, Mr Hargreaves.
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