Page 2593 - Week 09 - Wednesday, 7 August 2013

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MR SMYTH: Well, how much is it, Treasurer?

Mr Barr: It is two years between 20 and 25.

MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Mr Smyth, do not encourage—

MR SMYTH: I am sorry, Madam Deputy Speaker. I am sorry.

MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Address your comments to me.

MR SMYTH: Again, here we have the shift in the story. Here we are. Here we are, except it is with different details again.

Mr Barr interjecting—

MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order, members! You have got just over two minutes to go, Mr Smyth.

MR SMYTH: I will enjoy every second of it, Madam Deputy Speaker.

MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: I would not waste your time having this conversation across the chamber, please.

MR SMYTH: Again, we are not being told by the Treasurer what the effect will be. People understand that millions of dollars is a large amount of money, particularly when they are paying more and more on their rates every year, particularly when the budget documents show that total rates will go up about 11 per cent per year, year on year over the three outyears. They understand what is happening. They know the cost of living. They know the real impacts. It is time that the Chief Minister kept her words in respect of their governing encompassing transparency, participation and collaboration.

There has been no collaboration. The public are not allowed to participate in the full debate because they are never given the detail and were certainly not encompassing transparency. I commend the motion to the Assembly.

Question put:

That the motion be agreed to.

The Assembly voted—

Question so resolved in the negative.

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