Page 2267 - Week 08 - Tuesday, 12 August 2014
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“Let’s every three or four months release another bunch of glossy slides, pictorials and vision statements and pretend that we have got a plan here that is going to be implemented.”
What I am hearing from people, be it in the planning sphere or elsewhere, is that the government has not so much got a plan as just a whole bunch of ideas or thought bubbles that are the disparate agendas of a disparate group of ministers that are dragging the city in every direction: stadiums, city to the lake, rebuilding Northbourne. You have got Simon and Shane trying to rebuild Northbourne while Andrew is off to West Basin and the sports stadium. They are all over the shop.
The view is that that is what is happening with this government with each minister driving their particular agenda, ruffling feathers throughout the community. The cracks in this government are getting deeper and wider. Meanwhile, we have a Chief Minister who lacks any purpose, vision or plan of her own getting out there and pasting over the cracks.
Ms Gallagher: That’s a bit rough. You’re nasty so early, Jeremy.
MR HANSON: I am just reporting back—
MADAM SPEAKER: Order!
MR HANSON: Chief Minister, I am reporting back for the information of ministers.
Mr Barr: You’ve been to a Liberal Party meeting, have you, Jeremy?
MR HANSON: No. You would be surprised who says this sort of stuff.
MADAM SPEAKER: Address the chair, Mr Hanson.
MR HANSON: My apologies, Madam Speaker; I should not respond to the ministers’ interjections.
MADAM SPEAKER: No, you should not.
MR HANSON: I do understand why the Chief Minister would be sensitive, because she may have heard—and this does extend broadly across the community—the view of where this government are at with their individual agendas which are about themselves and not about the community and a Chief Minister who is spending much of her time pasting over the cracks. I think we saw it with things like Mr Fluffy and other areas where the Chief Minister is forced to essentially take the reins, take the issues away from ministers who are not getting the job done. But people increasingly are seeing that.
What they do not see is any coherence of a plan or a vision for Canberra from this government; they see a series of thought bubbles that are taking us in every direction at the same time, and poorly thought through. That is reflected in this budget. When
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