Page 3059 - Week 10 - Tuesday, 23 September 2014
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this government is pursuing an agenda on their pet projects, their agendas, and is not in accord with our priorities?”
Certainly, light rail comes up time and time again. As Mr Smyth outlined, we have a health bureaucracy, a health system, which is failing to deliver on some of the most important outputs, in terms of bed occupancy, ED waiting times and actually building the infrastructure. And this government is going full steam ahead on spending well over $800 million on a light rail project.
It is not just about that; there is the solar project. If only this government paid as much attention to health, and if only these ministers paid as much attention to health as they did to their solar projects and to their wind farms, indeed we would have the best health system in Australia.
We know that this government is driven by wanting to be the most green, the most progressive—meaning left wing—jurisdiction in Australia, because it has told us that. It means that instead of having a focus on health, on education, on the priorities that matter to Canberra, what we get in this place—and we just heard it from Mr Rattenbury—is a drive to push syringes into the prison. I know that Mr Wall will have more to say about that, and the safety issues that that imposes on staff. There is the push for euthanasia, the massive increase in people’s rates, trying to get everybody out of their cars, Skywhale and all the public art, the banning of soft drinks, their planning regime, solar being imposed on the people at Uriarra, Mr Rattenbury and his banning of pig farms, the hen cages, the Nazi strippers that we saw from Ms Joy Burch’s latest folly with the Fringe Festival—
Dr Bourke: Madam Assistant Speaker—
MR HANSON: Can you stop the clock?
MADAM ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Ms Lawder): Do you have a point of order, Dr Bourke?
Dr Bourke: Yes, I have a point of order, Madam Assistant Speaker. Mr Hanson is just being—
MR HANSON: Can we stop the clock, please?
MADAM ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Stop the clock.
Dr Bourke: It is on the question of relevance.
MADAM ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Yes. Stop the clock.
Dr Bourke: The matter of public importance—
Mr Smyth: Madam Speaker, there is a request that the clock be stopped.
MADAM ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Thank you.
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