Page 3576 - Week 11 - Thursday, 23 October 2014

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Mr Coe interjecting—

DR BOURKE: I am being interrupted.

MADAM SPEAKER: Order, Mr Coe!

DR BOURKE: Minister, health and education were also measures of wellbeing in the OECD report. How does the ACT government support these two vital areas?

MR BARR: They are the two biggest areas of investment by this government, health and education, and they are the two areas, I note, that the Liberal Party is cutting at a federal level—cutting health and cutting education.

Opposition members interjecting—

MR BARR: They can sigh and moan opposite, but we know—

Opposition members interjecting—

MADAM SPEAKER: Order! The opposition will come to order.

MR BARR: and every Liberal premier and every Liberal treasurer around this country knows, that the federal Liberal government—

Mr Hanson interjecting—

MADAM SPEAKER: Mr Hanson!

MR BARR: That the federal Liberal government’s cuts to health and education are bad for this country.

Opposition members interjecting—

MADAM SPEAKER: Mr Smyth!

MR BARR: Don’t take my word for it: take Mike Baird’s word for it; take Denis Napthine’s word for it; even take Campbell Newman’s word for it.

Mr Hanson interjecting—

MR BARR: Those three, that troika of conservative premiers, know that the federal Liberal cuts to health and education are bad. It contrasts markedly with the approach of this Labor government, which invests more in health and education than any other government—

Mr Hanson: Ignoramus.

Dr Bourke: Point of order.

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