Page 3159 - Week 08 - Wednesday, 22 August 2012

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There are victims of this government’s performance. We hear about them and read about them on a daily basis. To try and compare it to trivial issues, as the Deputy Chief Minister has, trivialises the experience of people in our health system. It trivialises the serious repercussions for people when our health system fails them. That is what we have had from those opposite. What we have in the vote from the Labor Party and the Greens today is an endorsement of this process. They are endorsing the facts that are on the table here. They are endorsing this health system that has failed, that has gone backwards and that has let so many people down. They are endorsing a data scandal that has deceived the community and lied to them about their experiences. They are endorsing this Chief Minister’s response to this, which has been less than forthright and less than honest and which has lacked integrity.

That is what this vote is about today. So when the Labor Party and the Greens vote down this motion, they will be endorsing this behaviour. They have set a new low when it comes to keeping a minister accountable. On any of these points this minister should go. This minister does not deserve the confidence of this house. I commend the motion to the Assembly.

MS LE COUTEUR (Molonglo): Mr Speaker, I seek leave under standing order 46 to make a personal explanation.

MR SPEAKER: Yes, Ms Le Couteur.

MS LE COUTEUR: Thank you, Mr Speaker. I very briefly wish to correct the statement which Mr Seselja has just made and which I understand Mr Hanson may have made in my absence about my conversation with Mr Hanson at the Property Council. We discussed this motion and various reasons why you might or might not support it. I mentioned that one of the issues was clearly the timing and that there would soon be a more substantive issue about confidence, or lack of confidence, in the government. That was all. It was merely noting it was two months before an election. I was not saying this was a reason not to; merely this was the timing.

Question put:

That Mr Seselja’s motion be agreed to.

The Assembly voted—

Question so resolved in the negative.

Sitting suspended from 12.53 to 2 pm.

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