Page 3681 - Week 12 - Wednesday, 23 October 2013
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will be of great benefit for the community in Tuggeranong. Providing a sporting facility—in this case a swimming pool—would be of great benefit to the people of Tuggeranong. Later today we have two more motions, one from Ms Lawder addressing the issue of child safety.
Madam Deputy Speaker, I call your attention to the fact that there is an ongoing conversation occurring. If members wish to speak, perhaps they could take that outside.
MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Thank you, Mr Hanson, for your advice.
Members interjecting—
MR HANSON: There are interjections from those opposite, disorderly interjections.
Dr Bourke interjecting—
MR HANSON: Could you stop the clock, please.
MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Stop the clock. I have noticed a level of conversation on both sides of the house since I have been in the chair. I ask people to keep their conversations as low as possible or go out and have their conversations outside.
MR HANSON: Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. The issue that will be raised by Ms Lawder later today is about road safety—looking for a footpath, a crossing, outside a school. This is an important issue for the community; again the motion is based on the engagement that she has had with that community. Then Mrs Jones will move a motion about road safety in Gungahlin at the corner of Hinder and Hibberson streets, again working for the community.
I think you can see the difference. You can see the difference between what the opposition is endeavouring to achieve—good practical measures of benefit to the community—and what the government is doing here. What the government is doing is this. No doubt they will all speak, pat themselves on the back, and say: “Aren’t we wonderful? Look at what we are doing.” What benefit is there to the community in what the government is doing today? What possible benefit is arising from this motion that we have today? I look forward to hearing, from maybe Mr Gentleman, Ms Burch or Mr Barr, what is the single benefit of what is occurring in this place probably over the next while with these members standing up and patting each other on the back.
It is ironic that perhaps the only decision that I can laud this government for that they have made in the last 12 months that has had some benefit to the community would probably be the dismissal of Dr Bourke as a minister, which I think we can all agree has had a benefit.
What I would say, though, is that this is not a government that should be looking at itself in the last 12 months. This should be a government that reviews its performance over the last 12 years. What you can see, Madam Deputy Speaker, is that over the last
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