Page 289 - Week 01 - Thursday, 16 February 2012
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This is all about their own travails, their own troubles, their own problems. This is all about trying to get even because I had the temerity to expose what is going on in their particular party. So I will sit here in silence and listen to the diatribe which is coming my way, after which I am going to urge the Assembly to vote the motion down.
MS BRESNAN (Brindabella) (10.28): The Greens will not support the censure. I would like to note that there is actually a process in the standing orders, citizens’ right of reply. It is a clear process, and the appropriate forum for that to be discussed is through admin and procedure. That is something which Mr Jeffery and the Tuggeranong Community Council or Darryl Johnston, as representative of the council, can exercise. And that, I think, is the appropriate way to deal with that.
Mr Smyth said that by doing this we condone it. I absolutely do not condone the comments. I do not share the comments made by Mr Hargreaves. Quite clearly from yesterday too, they are not views that are shared by other members of the Labor Party or obviously by the Liberal Party. Indeed, the very fact that the Chief Minister does meet regularly with the Tuggeranong Community Council does show that those views are not shared. And I think it is worth pointing that out. I do agree with Mr Smyth. I will note that, particularly under Darryl Johnston as chair of the Tuggeranong Community Council, they have brought a very strong level of professionalism to what they do.
Mr Seselja: You are not prepared to stand up for them, though, hey, Amanda?
Mr Hanson interjecting—
MR SPEAKER: Thank you, members. I have made my view clear.
MS BRESNAN: Mr Seselja says I am not prepared to stand up for them. I think that is a particularly unfair comment. I do not think the censure is the appropriate way to do it. We have a citizens’ right of reply. I do not share those comments. I said that.
Opposition members interjecting—
MR SPEAKER: Mr Hanson, Mr Doszpot and Mr Seselja, you have all just interjected in the last 30 seconds. I have made my view clear. You are all now warned. Ms Bresnan, you have the floor.
Mr Doszpot: Unbelievable.
MS BRESNAN: Mr Doszpot has continued to say it is unbelievable. I do not share those comments. As I said quite clearly, the Chief Minister does not. As a matter of fact, she meets regularly with them. I agree they have brought a very high degree of professionalism to what they do. Mr Hargreaves expressed his views. They are views no-one else shares, but the appropriate way to deal with that is through the processes that we have here in the Assembly through the standing orders. And that has been done in the past. That is the appropriate way. It does not condone the comments.
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