Page 1654 - Week 06 - Tuesday, 7 May 2013
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They are almost like fireside chats these days—the final missives, the final stump speeches—
MR ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Mr Doszpot): Chief Minister, can you confine your fireside chat to me at the moment? Thank you.
MS GALLAGHER: I will. The final stump speeches of—
Mr Hanson: She is entertaining, actually.
MS GALLAGHER: I actually think I may miss some of those stump speeches in the future, but time will tell. I do hear—
Mr Hanson: You will probably hear them from the Senate. You will hear them from the Senate.
MS GALLAGHER: No. In fact, Mr Hanson, I hear that you made a very public statement that Mr Seselja will be remaining in the Assembly for the next four months. You said at the AHA dinner that you were expecting to see him here until August, which would be about the—
Mr Hanson: August?
MS GALLAGHER: That is my measure of it. You said it in April; four months equals August. You said to a roomful of people that Mr Seselja is staying here until the writs are issued. So at least we have had any doubt about that taken out of our minds, that we are aware—
Mr Hanson: If you actually turned up you might be able to hear—
Mr Seselja: You should attend these dinners before you—
MS GALLAGHER: We can all have the battle of the diary and I can tell you that at the majority of events I go to, you are not anywhere in sight.
Members interjecting—
MR ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Members! Chief Minister, take your seat for a moment. Can we stop the clock? I have given a fair bit of leeway to the banter that is going on but let us pay attention to the speaker at the moment. Chief Minister, please resume.
MS GALLAGHER: Thank you, Mr Assistant Speaker. The issue of open and accountable government is important to me, as I have made clear from the first speeches I gave since becoming Chief Minister in this place. Indeed, I welcome Mr Seselja’s interest in open government agendas. Perhaps if he is successful in his Senate bid he might have the opportunity to raise some of these reforms that he is so keen on through the federal parliament or, indeed, in the final four months that he is going to sit in this place in the lead-up to the federal campaign.
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