Ms LEE - 2013-02-20
Can you inform the House of when the new animal welfare laws take effect as a result of the passage of the Animal Welfare Act? Can you inform the House of the effects of these amendments and what issues they will address?
ANSWER
I thank the member for Nhulunbuy for her question ...
Ms Anderson: Madam Speaker, that question came from the member for Arnhem, not the member for Nhulunbuy.
Mr GILES: Oh ,sorry. Thank you very much, member for Arnhem. I would have thought the member for Nhulunbuy, as the shadow minister, might have asked a question, but it was the member for Arnhem, because we on this side care about animal welfare.
Let us not forget it was these guys over here who saw between 124 and 800 cattle die on the Mataranka Station. What did they do? Did they move to prosecution? ‘No, we do not go down that path’. But we looked after it, we went through the Council of Territory Cooperation …
Ms LAWRIE: A point of order, Madam Speaker! Relevance, he is making his leadership pitch - I get it - but answer your own dorothy dixer.
Madam SPEAKER: There is not point of order, Opposition Leader. Sit down.
Mr GILES: This is coming from the lady who could only count to one when she was in government. In her leadership pitch she got to one. Congratulations, Opposition Leader.
I did say to the new member for Wanguri – and congratulations on your appointment, member for Wanguri – that she would make a really good Opposition Leader. The thing about this Chamber is when you come and take your chair …
Ms LAWRIE: A point of order, Madam Speaker! Relevance, we know he is obsessed about leadership because he has been trying to get it. Answer your own dorothy dixer.
Madam SPEAKER: Sit down. It is not a point of order!
Mr GILES: Thank you very much, Madam Speaker. It is highly relevant.
When you come into this Chamber you get a chair with the name of your electorate on it. I am sure you are sitting, member for Wanguri, on a chair that says ‘Wanguri’, but your place might change. We now have the member for Casuarina in the departure lounge sitting over there, so be ready to move over one more, and one more. You may be the shadow spokesperson for Local Government and Animal Welfare. I would really appreciate a question because your side just does not seem interested.
You did nothing about the Mataranka deaths. As I said, between 124 and 800 cattle died on Mataranka Station and you did nothing. You are the people who were, federally, in bed with the Greens and you are all this soft lefty, you love the animals, but you do nothing when they die. It took us to come forward with the CTC recommendations and put them into practice, Stage 1 is done ...
Ms LAWRIE: A point of order, Madam Speaker! Misleading, the department was restructured, the legislation was changed and …
Madam SPEAKER: Opposition Leader, sit down, it is not a point of order!
Mr GILES: Thank you Madam Speaker. I was under the assumption that the word ‘misleading’ was ruled out in this Chamber, but here we have the Opposition Leader’s lies - fifty shades of Labor lies. That is just another one you have introduced into the Chamber. Come on, bring it on ...
Ms LAWRIE: A point of order, Madam Speaker! I am looking forward to when you are the Chief Minister, because you are putting on your little pantomime now. Bring it on, baby, bring it on!
Madam SPEAKER: Opposition Leader, you are on a warning!
Mr GILES: I can advise this House and the Territory that the changes to the Animal Welfare Act came into effect on the 6 February, with seven important changes. The rest are to come in on 21 ...
Madam SPEAKER: Minister, your time has expired.
Mr ELFERINK (Leader of Government Business): Madam Speaker, I ask that further questions be placed on the Written Question Paper.
ANSWER
I thank the member for Nhulunbuy for her question ...
Ms Anderson: Madam Speaker, that question came from the member for Arnhem, not the member for Nhulunbuy.
Mr GILES: Oh ,sorry. Thank you very much, member for Arnhem. I would have thought the member for Nhulunbuy, as the shadow minister, might have asked a question, but it was the member for Arnhem, because we on this side care about animal welfare.
Let us not forget it was these guys over here who saw between 124 and 800 cattle die on the Mataranka Station. What did they do? Did they move to prosecution? ‘No, we do not go down that path’. But we looked after it, we went through the Council of Territory Cooperation …
Ms LAWRIE: A point of order, Madam Speaker! Relevance, he is making his leadership pitch - I get it - but answer your own dorothy dixer.
Madam SPEAKER: There is not point of order, Opposition Leader. Sit down.
Mr GILES: This is coming from the lady who could only count to one when she was in government. In her leadership pitch she got to one. Congratulations, Opposition Leader.
I did say to the new member for Wanguri – and congratulations on your appointment, member for Wanguri – that she would make a really good Opposition Leader. The thing about this Chamber is when you come and take your chair …
Ms LAWRIE: A point of order, Madam Speaker! Relevance, we know he is obsessed about leadership because he has been trying to get it. Answer your own dorothy dixer.
Madam SPEAKER: Sit down. It is not a point of order!
Mr GILES: Thank you very much, Madam Speaker. It is highly relevant.
When you come into this Chamber you get a chair with the name of your electorate on it. I am sure you are sitting, member for Wanguri, on a chair that says ‘Wanguri’, but your place might change. We now have the member for Casuarina in the departure lounge sitting over there, so be ready to move over one more, and one more. You may be the shadow spokesperson for Local Government and Animal Welfare. I would really appreciate a question because your side just does not seem interested.
You did nothing about the Mataranka deaths. As I said, between 124 and 800 cattle died on Mataranka Station and you did nothing. You are the people who were, federally, in bed with the Greens and you are all this soft lefty, you love the animals, but you do nothing when they die. It took us to come forward with the CTC recommendations and put them into practice, Stage 1 is done ...
Ms LAWRIE: A point of order, Madam Speaker! Misleading, the department was restructured, the legislation was changed and …
Madam SPEAKER: Opposition Leader, sit down, it is not a point of order!
Mr GILES: Thank you Madam Speaker. I was under the assumption that the word ‘misleading’ was ruled out in this Chamber, but here we have the Opposition Leader’s lies - fifty shades of Labor lies. That is just another one you have introduced into the Chamber. Come on, bring it on ...
Ms LAWRIE: A point of order, Madam Speaker! I am looking forward to when you are the Chief Minister, because you are putting on your little pantomime now. Bring it on, baby, bring it on!
Madam SPEAKER: Opposition Leader, you are on a warning!
Mr GILES: I can advise this House and the Territory that the changes to the Animal Welfare Act came into effect on the 6 February, with seven important changes. The rest are to come in on 21 ...
Madam SPEAKER: Minister, your time has expired.
Mr ELFERINK (Leader of Government Business): Madam Speaker, I ask that further questions be placed on the Written Question Paper.
Last updated: 09 Aug 2016