Page 552 - Week 02 - Wednesday, 19 March 2014
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Mr Doszpot: It has not stopped yet.
MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: It is happening, Mr Doszpot. Mr Hanson, I think you need to be a little more careful in what you are saying. I think you are verging on impugning the reputation of the Chief Minister in what you are saying. I would ask you to withdraw the statement, “I hope that she would be a little bit more honest,” please.
MR HANSON: I will withdraw, Madam Deputy Speaker.
MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Thank you very much. Mr Hanson, you may continue.
MR HANSON: I will be more careful in my language.
MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Thank you.
Ms Gallagher: Like the Fonz.
MR HANSON: Like the Fonz?
Ms Gallagher: He could never say “sorry”.
MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Chief Minister!
MR HANSON: It is ironic that the Chief Minister is saying I can never say sorry, when the motion today calls on her to apologise and she is going to vote against it. It is quite ironic, isn’t it, that the very person that is going to vote against a motion asking her to apologise has criticised me for not apologising!
It would appear that there is no threshold beyond which the Greens will not support this government. If you had a Liberal government and you had Shane Rattenbury on the crossbenches, I would have thought he would have been salivating over any number of these issues. You can look at the vote of no confidence moved against Minister Burch and some of that disgraceful behaviour that Shane Rattenbury defends, as he again defends the minister today.
I wonder which is the most pressing misleading statement this minister has made about the walk-in centres. When you look at it in its entirety, in 2008 there was a Labor statement on her policy on a website, in which the Labor Party said they were going to establish three walk-in centres. Do you remember that one from 2008? They broke that promise. “ACT Labor will establish three new walk-in centres.” No, not true. It was stated that the first one would be opening in 2010 to fill the gap—blah, blah, blah. So back in 2008 they said there would be three new walk-in centres.
Are there three? Are there ever going to be three? Have we got three? Where are they? No, not true. That was the first broken promise, the first misleading statement. You went to an election in 2008 saying, “We’re going to do something,” and you did something entirely different.
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