Page 3265 - Week 09 - Wednesday, 21 August 2019
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Ms Berry: On a point of order, Madam Speaker, that interjection is a very gendered interjection towards a woman. It might be considered that when I have an issue to raise with those opposite, it is described as a rant. It is completely unacceptable and it should be withdrawn.
Mr Coe: On the point of order, it is worth noting that numerous members opposite, including the Chief Minister and the Minister for Health, laughed.
MADAM SPEAKER: There is no point of order. I remind everybody that the minister has a point, in that the noise and the interjections from members of the opposition are at times loud and sometimes verging on being unparliamentary. I understand that there is theatre and there is the cut and thrust of political debate, but you should all have respect for and be respectful to other people in the chamber.
Crime—property damage
MRS JONES: My question is to the Minister for Police and Emergency Services. I refer to an incident which occurred on 25 July 2019, in which a self-confessed drug-affected Labor politician repeatedly kicked in and destroyed a door at a hotel in Kingston. Media reported that the incident was so serious that guests at the hotel were advised to stay away from the area and that multiple ACT police officers attended the scene. Minister, why were no charges brought against this person, given the damage, destruction and violence that was caused in the hotel?
MR GENTLEMAN: That would be a matter for the operational side of ACT Policing. I very much trust their work across the ACT. They are a fantastic group of people that we continue to resource. It is important that they are able to do their job independently from government, but that they are supported by government in a resourcing sense.
Yesterday the opposition voted against the biggest resource appropriation for ACT Policing. We will continue to support ACT Policing. But I will not interfere, as Mrs Jones indicates I should, as she would if she were the police minister in the ACT.
Mrs Jones: Point of order on relevance.
MADAM SPEAKER: The minister is responding to your question. I think he is being relevant to your question. Resume your seat.
Mrs Jones: I would like to make a point.
MADAM SPEAKER: You raised relevance. I believe he is answering.
Mrs Jones: Yes, but I would also like to point out standing order 47. I ask that in this case you consider standing order 47 in relation to being misrepresented. This is a very important point. The minister makes a case that I did something, which I did not. I have been misrepresented.
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