Mr BAILEY - 1999-04-22
I again refer the Chief Minister to the transcript of the videotape that we have provided him. On pages 1, 4 and 5 Mark Textor interrogates the participants ...
Members interjecting.
Mr SPEAKER: Order!
Mr BAILEY: Oh, you know it’s in there? You’ve seen it?
On pages 1, 4 and 5, Mark Textor interrogates participants about the public image of my former colleague, Brian Ede, and the then Country Liberal Party leader, Marshall Perron. On pages 9 and 10, Textor conducts a party political opinion poll asking each participant who they would vote for.
Chief Minister, do you endorse Territory taxpayer’s money being spent to conduct party political opinion polling?
ANSWER
Mr Speaker, I am on the record as saying that, based on the admissions of Andrew Coward, it would appear to me that some of his actions were totally inappropriate.
Under the former Chief Minister’s government et al, he sacked him the day he became Chief Minister and …
Members interjecting.
Mr BURKE: ... would never happen under any government that I have.
Members interjecting.
Mr SPEAKER: Order!
Mr BURKE: We have some important issues to talk about. I want to hear what my colleague, the Minister for Primary Industry and Fisheries has to say about the mussels and how we’re dealing with the black striped mussels, so we’ll move on.
Members interjecting.
Mr SPEAKER: Order!
Mr BAILEY: Oh, you know it’s in there? You’ve seen it?
On pages 1, 4 and 5, Mark Textor interrogates participants about the public image of my former colleague, Brian Ede, and the then Country Liberal Party leader, Marshall Perron. On pages 9 and 10, Textor conducts a party political opinion poll asking each participant who they would vote for.
Chief Minister, do you endorse Territory taxpayer’s money being spent to conduct party political opinion polling?
ANSWER
Mr Speaker, I am on the record as saying that, based on the admissions of Andrew Coward, it would appear to me that some of his actions were totally inappropriate.
Under the former Chief Minister’s government et al, he sacked him the day he became Chief Minister and …
Members interjecting.
Mr BURKE: ... would never happen under any government that I have.
Members interjecting.
Mr SPEAKER: Order!
Mr BURKE: We have some important issues to talk about. I want to hear what my colleague, the Minister for Primary Industry and Fisheries has to say about the mussels and how we’re dealing with the black striped mussels, so we’ll move on.
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