Page 3139 - Week 09 - Tuesday, 20 August 2019
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MR COE: I will happily put my MyWay card on the record if need be.
Ms Cheyne: Please; go for it. And your whole team’s.
MADAM SPEAKER: Ms Cheyne, please, enough.
Mr Hanson: Madam Speaker, Mr Coe is trying to speak. He is being repeatedly interjected on by Ms Cheyne. I have been warned for a similar situation.
MADAM SPEAKER: Resume your seat, Mr Hanson. I have called Ms Cheyne to order.
Mr Hanson: Why does she get away with it without a warning?
MADAM SPEAKER: Resume your seat. I have called Ms Cheyne to order. Mr Coe, you have the floor.
MR COE: Thank you, Madam Speaker. Mr Gentleman failed to address any of the substantive issues that are before the Assembly in this censure motion.
We are not surprised that the Greens would come in here and try to claim that they are the champions of the bus network, but you cannot have it both ways. You cannot claim the successes then wash your hands of the failures. It is a two-way street. For the Greens to claim that the motion that Miss Burch put on the notice paper on Wednesday was their own was misleading.
For them now to come in and say that they are holding the government to account by letting them off the hook is yet another demonstration of just how gutless they are. This is a very tight red-green coalition in the ACT—a very tight coalition. You would think that Ms Le Couteur, in her twilight months in this place, would finally have the courage to stand up, but obviously not. She would much rather have Canberrans across the city standing and waiting at bus stops right across the city.
If the government cannot get a bus timetable right, what hope do they have at the Canberra Hospital? What hope do they have at the Education Directorate? What hope do they have at AMC or at Kids in Care? This government has simply lost interest. They have no respect for Canberrans. They are far more interested in their own vanity than they are in the people they are meant to represent. This government deserves to be thrown out, but in the interim this minister deserves to be censured.
MR BARR (Kurrajong—Chief Minister, Treasurer, Minister for Social Inclusion and Equality, Minister for Tertiary Education, Minister for Tourism and Special Events and Minister for Trade, Industry and Investment) (11.12): The Leader of the Opposition, in what was a series of tirades against individuals, had the opportunity to outline an alternative vision and say something positive about what he and his team might contribute. Instead, he spent his entire speech personally attacking the motives of individuals who have been working hard in their respective portfolios to make Canberra a better place. We have come to expect this type of negativity from those
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