Page 36 - Week 01 - Tuesday, 10 February 2015
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mention just two emails. One said: “I would like to congratulate you on a job well done. Much to my surprise, Tharwa reported open today and I got home in no time at all.” Another said: “Once again, I appreciate your response in taking time to reply to me and I hope that the situation is resolved soon.” And it was. It was resolved early—indeed, so early, Mr Smyth, that you did not even wake up to the news and you wrote me a letter asking about it.
Now let me go to the words in the media release from Mr Hanson. There was some general scuttlebutt about other things I have done. Mr Hanson made comment about supposed mistakes that I have made and other things, but it is worth noting that people in here do occasionally make mistakes. The Liberals are not immune to making mistakes. For example, the Liberals had to repay a grant designed for carers and volunteers. Do you remember that? The Liberal Party ripped $10,000 out of community organisations. You were not chair at that time, as I understand, Mrs Dunne. There was $10,000 purportedly to go to volunteers for community organisations. The Canberra Liberals put their hands up and took the money. It was more money than many other organisations received out of that grant round. Public shame made them repay it.
Let me go to perhaps another error of judgement. Here we have Canberra Liberals Alistair Coe and Vicki Dunne having to repay thousands of dollars to the ACT taxpayers after being found to have misused public money to fund their re-election campaign. That is a mistake. That is an error. That was Mrs Dunne and Alistair Coe, Mr Coe, needing to repay thousands of dollars after being found to have misused taxpayer funds.
I closed a road to get a fire and emergency station. Fine. Vicki Dunne and Alistair Coe misused taxpayer funds. And of course—
MADAM SPEAKER: Would you like to rephrase that in accordance with the standing orders, please, Minister Burch?
MS BURCH: Mrs Dunne and Mr Coe had to repay thousands of dollars to the ACT taxpayer after being found to have misused public funds.
Then we have Ms Lawder, just to move on with mistakes, who wanted to get rid of native birds. We may remember that little gem here. She wanted to eradicate a native species, a protected species. There is nothing like the environment spokesman for the Liberal Party wanting to get rid of a native species!
I closed a road to dig a ditch to get a fire station. I like that one, thank you very much.
Mr Doszpot surfed the web—this is the little gem in the Canberra Times—for a $13,000 study report. Mr Doszpot cut and pasted the majority of the report on a $13,000 taxpayer funded study.
We could go to the audit of the time sheets, but we will leave that be.
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