Page 542 - Week 02 - Wednesday, 19 March 2014
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Members interjecting—
MADAM ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Order, members! Please do not speak across the chamber.
MR HANSON: But we know that immediately after the 2004 election they started the planning to close 23 schools.
Then, what happened in 2008? In 2008, in the lead-up to that election, 11 days before the election, Katy Gallagher went to the people of the ACT and said, “All our plans are on the table. They’re all on the table. Trust me. I’m honest Katy. They’re all on the table.” But again, straight after the election, what happened? “There’s a secret plan to buy Calvary and sell Clare Holland House. Forgot to tell you about that one.” That was a very advanced agreement. In actual fact, let me quote from a letter from the Chief Minister, I think it was, to the Little Company of Mary:
To enable further development of the proposal past the commencement of the caretaker period which takes effect on 12 September 2008, my preference is that the heads of agreement be signed by this date.
So they were in discussion about a heads of agreement for flogging off Clare Holland House and buying Calvary and did not tell the people. It was revealed after the election.
Government members interjecting—
MR HANSON: They are interjecting from the other side of the chamber, but does that sound like integrity to you, Madam Assistant Speaker? Does that sound decent? Does that sound honest?
Anyway, let us roll the clock forward to the last election and see what it was this time in Katy Gallagher’s greatest hits of honesty, integrity and decency. What do we have this time? I am enjoying this. I really am. Is it evident? I am enjoying this. So what she decided this time was that she was going to tell a little fib about the walk-in centre. Let me tell you what she said before the election. On 31 July 2012, in front of all the comrades at the Labor conference, there she was. Andrew Barr was there in his red T-shirt, I am sure. Mick Gentleman was cheering on. The placards were there, the red-hot fever pitch. Elias was in the front row.
This is what she said: “As a Labor government, there are things we will do and there are things we will not do if we win the October 2012 election. What I will not do if I’m the Chief Minister after October 20 is close the nurse-led walk-in centre.” And the faithful cheered her. Andrew Barr was cheering and clapping. Elias was saying, “That’s some good stuff, isn’t it, that we can put on Twitter.” And that is exactly what she said. Last sitting week I asked a question of the Chief Minister:
Minister, can you advise whether the walk-in centre at TCH will close once the centres in Belconnen and Tuggeranong are operational?
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