Page 1056 - Week 03 - Wednesday, 21 March 2012
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MR COE: I trust that will be the situation.
MR ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Mr Hargreaves): Order, members! Mr Coe, address your remarks through the chair, please.
MR COE: Sure, Mr Assistant Speaker. I am sure Ms Gallagher will be in the—
Mr Seselja: On a point of order, Mr Assistant Speaker, Ms Gallagher was shouting abuse across the chamber. Are you going to call her to order in the way that you did Mr Coe just then?
MR ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Resume your seat, Mr Seselja. On your point of order, Mr Seselja, I called both members to order. I was not being particular. However, Mr Coe in his speech said “if you are going to do X, Y and Z” to the Chief Minister. That is what I asked him to desist from doing and to address his remarks through the chair. Mr Coe, you have the floor.
MR COE: Thank you, Mr Assistant Speaker. If Ms Gallagher thinks that should be the new standard in this place, I trust that she will be down here throughout all the debates to show just how serious an issue is. That is the standard. That is the professionalism of the Chief Minister. That is the professionalism of the person who is running the $4.3 billion territory budget. That is what we have got running this show. We know that we have got a couple of ministers who get very temperamental when they are called duds, even if it is by 2CC, the Canberra Times and numerous other people. I think we have got three of them, actually. By the time you count Dr Bourke, Ms Burch, and Mr Corbell, that is three of them.
MR ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Mr Coe, would you become a little bit more relevant, please?
MR COE: I will remain relevant to the people of Ginninderra when talking about road infrastructure because it is they who have been let down by a government that is increasingly becoming irrelevant, Mr Assistant Speaker.
Mr Seselja interjecting—
MR ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Order, Mr Seselja! Check your standing orders, please.
MR COE: The other duds on that side failed to see that they are not here to be emperors of their directorates. They are here to actually serve the people of Canberra who pay their wages. That is why all the feedback that I get when I am around Ginninderra or elsewhere is that the ACT government needs to get back to core business. It needs to get back to doing the things that ACT taxpayers expect it to do, and that is delivering local services—and such a local service is the upgrade of William Hovell Drive—and at least getting a reasonable amount of information such that all of us in this place are well placed to be able to make an informed decision.
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