Page 2462 - Week 08 - Tuesday, 9 August 2016
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front page of the Canberra Times said today, “Flawed analysis used in Labor’s jobs attack on Liberals”. Flawed analysis; we are going to expect this. We know that there is going to be the scare campaign from Mr Barr, who on the one hand cuts jobs in policing and on the other hand tries to sling mud. Economics professor Phil Lewis from the Labour Market Research Centre was quoted. He said that it was “definitely wrong and flawed”. He said “they would create jobs”. Let me quote from the Canberra Times. He said that “they would create jobs”.
Mr Barr interjecting—
MR HANSON: Mr Barr likes to talk about black holes. There is a massive black hole. Let me tell you what it is. It is $1.78 billion—$1.78 billion that we are seeing from those opposite, with plans for more. If that is not economically reckless, I do not know what is.
We have heard lots of interjecting from Mr Barr. He is a bit sensitive, Madam Deputy Speaker. He has been criticised by Dr Khalid Ahmed, who said that Mr Barr’s budget surplus is miraculous and unbelievable. Mr Barr is a bit sensitive about that. He has been criticised by others who said that there is a smell around this government. He does not like it when people are saying there is a smell around the government. There are people coming out, economics professors, saying that his attack, his scare campaign, was flawed and that our approach would actually create jobs.
He is a bit sensitive today, a bit bruised. We have to be concerned about that, members. When you are speaking, remember that this is a Chief Minister that really has nobody in this community—not the clubs, not many in the media and not many people out in the community that will speak to back him. The only people who, it seems, are now backing Mr Barr are some of his cronies from the Labor Party—we know that—and the CFMEU. They are staunch. They are still staunch. We know that they are out there running ads on behalf of Mr Barr, probably funded by pokie money that is coming in from the Tradies or elsewhere.
Mr Barr interjecting—
MR HANSON: Mr Barr interjects. I welcome his interjections, but he is a bit sensitive.
As much as we have our debates in this place and there are disputes, the grim reality is playing out there in the suburbs. As I said before, Mrs Jones, Mr Wall and Ms Lawder are out there all the time at the shopping centres, doorknocking and talking to people in the community. We know that the bad decisions of this government, their inability to manage the government and Mr Barr’s tax changes are hurting people. They are hurting real people. They are hurting retirees, families, singles. There are many singles, whatever age they are, living in units across this town whose rates are going up another 20 per cent. We have seen car rego going through the roof. We have seen parking prices going through the roof. We have seen household rates going up at about 10 per cent. Unit rates, members, have gone up 20 per cent—20 per cent in a single year. Commercial rates have gone up another 10 per cent and land tax about 11 per cent.
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