Page 3597 - Week 10 - Wednesday, 18 September 2019
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Ms Lawder: A point of order, Madam Speaker.
MADAM SPEAKER: Ms Lawder.
Ms Lawder: I am trying to listen to Mr Coe; Ms Berry keeps interjecting and I am finding it difficult to hear.
MADAM SPEAKER: Thank you. Everyone knows my thoughts on interjections. Mr Coe, continue.
MR COE: Madam Speaker, to get an economics lesson from the Deputy Chief Minister is pretty much the very reason that we are in the crisis that we are in right now, because it is a government that does not understand demand and supply, it does not understand the housing market and it does not understand the pain that thousands of Canberrans are enduring on a daily basis because of the rates, taxes, fees and charges that this government is imposing on them.
It is unfair, and the Canberra Liberals will keep fighting for these people. We will keep fighting for them because those on that side of the chamber are not. Those on that side of the chamber are far more interested in pursuing their own pet projects than they are in making the aspirations of tens of thousands of people in Canberra a reality. They are governing for themselves, not for the people they are meant to represent.
After 18 years of Labor, we have 35,000 people living below the poverty line. There are 8,000 children living below the poverty line in the ACT after two decades of Labor. For them to deny that there is a housing problem in the ACT speaks to just how out of touch, how disrespectful and how arrogant this government have become.
Amendment agreed to.
Original question, as amended, resolved in the affirmative.
Adjournment
Motion (by Ms Berry) proposed:
That the Assembly do now adjourn.
ACT library membership
MS LE COUTEUR (Murrumbidgee) (5.34): I rise today to speak about an issue that was raised with Assembly members by a person who lives in Gundagai. This person has given me permission to share his story. He is a visually impaired person looking to borrow audio books from the ACT library system. You might well say, “It’s not our responsibility to provide a New South Wales resident with access to such resources.” I would like to remind us all that Canberra, aside from being the nation's capital, is a large regional centre surrounded by New South Wales. Many New South Wales residents actively contribute to the prosperity of our region and many New South Wales residents work in Canberra. We had some discussion on this in the last motion.
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