Page 2330 - Week 08 - Tuesday, 12 August 2014
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Whichever way you go about business, if what occurs is that a building is put in the car park just outside the Assembly or elsewhere, we will pay in the long term. Whether we are borrowing the money and building it, as was the previous plan, or whether we get someone to build it for us and then pay them off with a long-term lease, including the running of the building, ultimately, the people of the ACT are going to have to pay one way or another.
They simply say, “Oh, it’s a PPP.” It is now the magic fairy dust. It seems that everything is going to be a PPP and no-one has to ever pay for any of this, which is abject nonsense.
We do remember the demise of the death star last time. I cannot quite remember which sequel it was in—Return of the Jedi or something like that. It seems that the death star is back; it has been rebuilt by Andrew Barr, the Assembly’s version of Darth Vader.
Mr Coe: New and improved.
MR HANSON: Yes, new and improved. It got blown up last time. We destroyed it last time but—
Mr Barr: Worst character ever.
MR HANSON: Worst character ever?
Mr Barr: You—Jar Jar Binks!
MADAM ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Thank you, Mr Barr. Order, Mr Hanson. There is no need to speak across the chamber.
MR HANSON: I cast myself, Madam Assistant Speaker, as Han Solo in this. I see myself as Han Solo. Mr Barr clearly is Darth Vader with his death star, and I will not go further beyond that. I do not want to apportion Jabba the Hutt to anyone.
Mr Barr interjecting—
MADAM ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Order, members! Mr Barr!
Mr Coe interjecting—
MADAM ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Mr Coe, that is enough.
Mr Rattenbury interjecting—
MR HANSON: Mr Rattenbury—we will find a character for him. Anyway, the death star is back. I do not know whether this time it is going to come back with the walkway. Remember the walkway that was going—
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