Mr GUNNER - 2010-05-04
Budget 2010-11 includes $980m of investment to make a real change for Indigenous Territorians as part of our plan for A Working Future. Can you please outline how these investments will help deliver real improvements for all Territorians across our regions?
ANSWER
Members interjecting.
Madam SPEAKER: Order! Order!
Ms McCARTHY: You see …
Members interjecting.
Madam SPEAKER: Order! Member for Fong Lim! Order!
Ms McCARTHY: I pick up the joke from the member for Fong Lim …
Members interjecting.
Madam SPEAKER: Order! Member for Port Darwin! Order!
Ms McCARTHY: … the joke that he considers the people of the Northern Territory to be. He had so many years in the federal parliament to do something but he did not lift a finger for the people in the bush …
Members interjecting.
Madam SPEAKER: Order! Order!
Ms McCARTHY: He did not lift a finger …
Madam SPEAKER: Member for Braitling! Member for Sanderson!
Ms McCARTHY: … and yet he sits in this parliament and he laughs at the very fact that our government is absolutely committed …
Members interjecting.
Madam SPEAKER: Member for Braitling! Member for Fong Lim!
Ms McCARTHY: … to wanting to improve the lives of all people of the …
Mr Tollner interjecting.
Madam SPEAKER: Order, member for Fong Lim!
Ms McCARTHY: … of the Northern Territory. Close to $750m …
Mr Giles interjecting.
Madam SPEAKER: Member for Braitling!
Ms McCARTHY: … for housing-related infrastructure, land servicing and essential services infrastructure in Territory growth towns. Nearly $50m to upgrade roads across regional areas of the Northern Territory, and over $10m on improving airstrips and barge landings at places like Utopia for airstrips, and Canteen Creek, Gapuwiyak and Ramingining for barge.
Members interjecting.
Ms McCARTHY: You see, Madam Speaker, they are not serious about the people in the regions. They are not serious. They sit there and laugh …
Members interjecting.
Madam SPEAKER: Order! Member for Braitling! Member for Fong Lim!
Ms McCARTHY: … that is how serious they are.
Members interjecting.
Madam SPEAKER: Member for Fong Lim!
Ms McCARTHY: This is how much …
Mr Tollner interjecting.
Madam SPEAKER: Member for Fong Lim!
Ms McCARTHY: … the CLP trashes the Territory.
Members interjecting.
Madam SPEAKER: Member for Braitling!
Mr Bohlin interjecting.
Madam SPEAKER: Member for Drysdale!
Ms McCARTHY: $3.1m over the next two years for regional bus transport services in Central Australia and the Top End. Over $130m …
Mr Styles interjecting.
Madam SPEAKER: Member for Sanderson!
Ms McCARTHY: … for new services improving community safety, health and education in our regional towns; over $7m to boost Indigenous training and employment programs; nearly $12m to improve services like the Aboriginal Interpreter Service.
This is an historic and fantastic day for the people of the Northern Territory because our government is about correcting the neglect of previous decades.
ANSWER
Members interjecting.
Madam SPEAKER: Order! Order!
Ms McCARTHY: You see …
Members interjecting.
Madam SPEAKER: Order! Member for Fong Lim! Order!
Ms McCARTHY: I pick up the joke from the member for Fong Lim …
Members interjecting.
Madam SPEAKER: Order! Member for Port Darwin! Order!
Ms McCARTHY: … the joke that he considers the people of the Northern Territory to be. He had so many years in the federal parliament to do something but he did not lift a finger for the people in the bush …
Members interjecting.
Madam SPEAKER: Order! Order!
Ms McCARTHY: He did not lift a finger …
Madam SPEAKER: Member for Braitling! Member for Sanderson!
Ms McCARTHY: … and yet he sits in this parliament and he laughs at the very fact that our government is absolutely committed …
Members interjecting.
Madam SPEAKER: Member for Braitling! Member for Fong Lim!
Ms McCARTHY: … to wanting to improve the lives of all people of the …
Mr Tollner interjecting.
Madam SPEAKER: Order, member for Fong Lim!
Ms McCARTHY: … of the Northern Territory. Close to $750m …
Mr Giles interjecting.
Madam SPEAKER: Member for Braitling!
Ms McCARTHY: … for housing-related infrastructure, land servicing and essential services infrastructure in Territory growth towns. Nearly $50m to upgrade roads across regional areas of the Northern Territory, and over $10m on improving airstrips and barge landings at places like Utopia for airstrips, and Canteen Creek, Gapuwiyak and Ramingining for barge.
Members interjecting.
Ms McCARTHY: You see, Madam Speaker, they are not serious about the people in the regions. They are not serious. They sit there and laugh …
Members interjecting.
Madam SPEAKER: Order! Member for Braitling! Member for Fong Lim!
Ms McCARTHY: … that is how serious they are.
Members interjecting.
Madam SPEAKER: Member for Fong Lim!
Ms McCARTHY: This is how much …
Mr Tollner interjecting.
Madam SPEAKER: Member for Fong Lim!
Ms McCARTHY: … the CLP trashes the Territory.
Members interjecting.
Madam SPEAKER: Member for Braitling!
Mr Bohlin interjecting.
Madam SPEAKER: Member for Drysdale!
Ms McCARTHY: $3.1m over the next two years for regional bus transport services in Central Australia and the Top End. Over $130m …
Mr Styles interjecting.
Madam SPEAKER: Member for Sanderson!
Ms McCARTHY: … for new services improving community safety, health and education in our regional towns; over $7m to boost Indigenous training and employment programs; nearly $12m to improve services like the Aboriginal Interpreter Service.
This is an historic and fantastic day for the people of the Northern Territory because our government is about correcting the neglect of previous decades.
Last updated: 09 Aug 2016