Page 1078 - Week 04 - Wednesday, 20 March 2013
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‘comrades’.” I can just see her there: “comrades”. “Here we are, comrades. Off to the left. March off to our most extreme, the most extreme, left-wing green government in Australia.” And what did Katy Gallagher say when Shane Rattenbury said that he wanted to be at the extremes? She said, “Yes, that stuff I wear as a badge of honour. So, comrades, comrades of the left, comrades of the most green government in Australia, let us march on together and let us actually see what this government wants to achieve.”
Members interjecting—
MR HANSON: Oh, they are biting back. The comrades on the other side—are you on the left side, minister?
Members interjecting—
MADAM ACTING SPEAKER: Members! Sit down, Mr Hanson. Stop the clock, please. Members, Mr Hanson will be heard in silence. Thank you very much; you have the floor, Mr Hanson.
MR HANSON: They are certainly getting uppity, Madam Acting Speaker.
Mr Corbell interjecting—
MR HANSON: He is ignoring your ruling, Madam Acting Speaker. They do not like it, do they? They certainly do not like it. They do not like being reminded that behind closed doors at their socialist meetings, at their Labor left meetings, it is all “Comrades, do not worry. We are with Rattenbury. We will sack Dr Bourke. We will put Rattenbury on the frontbench and we will go marching together, comrades, to the left. We will be the most left, the most extreme green, government in Australia. We will take you all with us.” That is what this motion is about today.
Let us actually go through some of the policies that Dr Bourke outlined on the position of this government. Ironically, he started with a talk about basic municipal services. I think that anybody who has been in this place over the last four or five years would know that this is a government that has paid scant regard to basic municipal services. The party that has been talking about basic services in this jurisdiction is the Canberra Liberals. We see that as a priority, and this mob opposite do not. We know that for a fact.
When it comes to the basics, it is not glamorous enough for them. It is difficult to have a progressive grass-cutting policy, isn’t it? It is difficult to have a progressive policy fixing cracks in pavements. They do not really worry about that stuff; it just does not appeal to them. But we see this as core business; we see this as the focus of what we want to achieve. Whilst this mob is trying to save the world from the Legislative Assembly, we get constituents saying, “Why isn’t this government focused on us?” Let me quote a resident in Macgregor: “I am livid at the level of neglect this town has been run down to.” Let me quote a resident in Griffith: “The so-called maintenance of public areas is a farce … trees are not pruned … footpaths remain broken and unrepaired.”
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