Ms LAWRIE - 2013-03-26
Illegitimate Chief Minister …
Mr ELFERINK: A point of order, Madam Speaker!
Madam SPEAKER: Opposition Leader, please withdraw that comment.
Ms LAWRIE: I withdraw ‘illegitimate’.
Days before your Japanese coup, you publicly promised Terry Mills your full support and committed to never challenging him for the leadership. Why should Territorians trust a single word you say, hollow man?
Mr ELFERINK: A point of order, Madam Speaker!
Madam SPEAKER: Withdraw please, Opposition Leader.
Ms LAWRIE: I withdraw. Why should Territorians trust a single word you say?
ANSWER
Madam Speaker, this is coming from the lady who left us with $5.5bn worth of debt. Talk about trust! She was in charge of the Territory Treasury ...
Ms LAWRIE: A point of order, Madam Speaker! Relevance, it is about you, Chief Minister, your actions. Account for your actions!
Madam SPEAKER: There is no point of order. Please sit down.
Mr GILES: Thank you very much, Madam Speaker. I missed that standing order number but I will take your interjection.
Talking about trust, I will go back to the point. You were trusted to run the Territory economy. You were trusted to run the books of the Northern Territory over the 11 years of your time as Treasurer. You left us with a debt legacy for every Territorian into the future - not today, not tomorrow, but six years to get the deficit back on track before we can start paying back your $5.5bn debt. Do not talk about trust! People had faith in you as Treasurer and this is what you have lumbered us with ...
Ms LAWRIE: A point of order, Madam Speaker! He has had his rant. Standing Order 113. Account for your actions! Why did you promise publicly not to challenge Terry Mills then knife him while he was in Japan? How could Territorians begin to understand or trust a word you say?
Madam SPEAKER: Please be seated.
Mr GILES: Madam Speaker I have nearly finished my answer. When it comes to leadership, it is important that everyone in this Chamber, everyone listening, and everyone who reads Hansard is cognisant of the fact that when the Leader of the Opposition was on this side of the Chamber she could only muscle up one number: her own. Look at your own team. There are much better leaders: the member for Wanguri, I keep saying.
Mr McCARTHY: A point of order, Madam Speaker! Standing Order 113: relevance, and the misuse of oxygen in this Chamber.
Madam SPEAKER: There is no point of order.
Mr GILES: Further to the point about the Leader of the Opposition only getting one number, why? Why could she not garner any more support from her colleagues? Because they knew she was incompetent. They had seen the books she was running when Treasurer, they could see the deficit, see the debt growing, and they knew she was in no position to lead the Territory. She is in no position to lead the Opposition, and to all her colleagues in the background, get some backbone and take the job.
Ms LAWRIE: A point of order, Madam Speaker! Standing Order 113: relevance. The question was, why should Territorians trust a word he says when he publicly committed to not challenging Terry Mills and then knifed him?
Mr ELFERINK: A point of order, Madam Speaker!
Madam SPEAKER: Opposition Leader, please withdraw that comment.
Ms LAWRIE: I withdraw ‘illegitimate’.
Days before your Japanese coup, you publicly promised Terry Mills your full support and committed to never challenging him for the leadership. Why should Territorians trust a single word you say, hollow man?
Mr ELFERINK: A point of order, Madam Speaker!
Madam SPEAKER: Withdraw please, Opposition Leader.
Ms LAWRIE: I withdraw. Why should Territorians trust a single word you say?
ANSWER
Madam Speaker, this is coming from the lady who left us with $5.5bn worth of debt. Talk about trust! She was in charge of the Territory Treasury ...
Ms LAWRIE: A point of order, Madam Speaker! Relevance, it is about you, Chief Minister, your actions. Account for your actions!
Madam SPEAKER: There is no point of order. Please sit down.
Mr GILES: Thank you very much, Madam Speaker. I missed that standing order number but I will take your interjection.
Talking about trust, I will go back to the point. You were trusted to run the Territory economy. You were trusted to run the books of the Northern Territory over the 11 years of your time as Treasurer. You left us with a debt legacy for every Territorian into the future - not today, not tomorrow, but six years to get the deficit back on track before we can start paying back your $5.5bn debt. Do not talk about trust! People had faith in you as Treasurer and this is what you have lumbered us with ...
Ms LAWRIE: A point of order, Madam Speaker! He has had his rant. Standing Order 113. Account for your actions! Why did you promise publicly not to challenge Terry Mills then knife him while he was in Japan? How could Territorians begin to understand or trust a word you say?
Madam SPEAKER: Please be seated.
Mr GILES: Madam Speaker I have nearly finished my answer. When it comes to leadership, it is important that everyone in this Chamber, everyone listening, and everyone who reads Hansard is cognisant of the fact that when the Leader of the Opposition was on this side of the Chamber she could only muscle up one number: her own. Look at your own team. There are much better leaders: the member for Wanguri, I keep saying.
Mr McCARTHY: A point of order, Madam Speaker! Standing Order 113: relevance, and the misuse of oxygen in this Chamber.
Madam SPEAKER: There is no point of order.
Mr GILES: Further to the point about the Leader of the Opposition only getting one number, why? Why could she not garner any more support from her colleagues? Because they knew she was incompetent. They had seen the books she was running when Treasurer, they could see the deficit, see the debt growing, and they knew she was in no position to lead the Territory. She is in no position to lead the Opposition, and to all her colleagues in the background, get some backbone and take the job.
Ms LAWRIE: A point of order, Madam Speaker! Standing Order 113: relevance. The question was, why should Territorians trust a word he says when he publicly committed to not challenging Terry Mills and then knifed him?
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