Ms LAWRIE - 2013-03-26
Days before you knifed Terry Mills, Alison Anderson said she opposed you becoming Chief Minister because you were ‘a little boy’. She is in your Cabinet. How can you, with a straight face, possibly pretend you are a united team, and why are you refusing to answer any questions about your knifing of Terry Mills, the elected Chief Minister of the Northern Territory? Are you so deeply ashamed of your actions you will not even countenance an answer in the parliament?
ANSWER
Madam Speaker, this is about Territorians. I do not want to verbal the member for Namatjira, the Minister for Regional Development and Women’s Policy and Local Government, but what she cares about - we have a quiet chat from time to time, she is a good friend of mine, a good colleague, and she cares about the $5.5bn Labor debt. If you ask her she will tell you she really cares about Labor debt.
Member for Fong Lim, what do you care about? Labor debt. The members for Araluen and Greatorex - we could keep going, it is all Labor debt. In Cabinet we talk about Labor debt. How do we fix Labor debt? There is $5.5bn of Labor debt, divide that by 230 000 Territorians and see how much impact and debt you have laid on every person in the Northern Territory.
Ms LAWRIE: A point of order, Madam Speaker! Standing Order 113: relevance. He is not answering the question. Are you so deeply ashamed of your behaviour that you will not even come into the Chamber and explain it?
Madam SPEAKER: There is no point of order.
Mr GILES: Thank you very much. How can the Leader of the Opposition use the word ‘ashamed’ in a relevance question. You must be talking about yourself. You have to be ashamed of the financial state you left the Northern Territory in. You should say sorry. You should apologise to Territorians for leaving us in this position.
Ms WALKER: A point of order, Madam Speaker! Standing Order 113. A very direct question has been asked of the Chief Minister. I ask you to direct the Chief Minister to answer the question not deflect from it.
Madam SPEAKER: There is no point of order. The Chief Minister has the latitude and is, no doubt, getting to the answer.
Mr GILES: Thank you, Madam Speaker. I wish the member for Nhulunbuy understood the rules of parliament and how it works. Returning to the initial question, I do not need to harp on too much about Labor’s $5.5bn debt which Delia Lawrie left us with when we came to government.
I would like to finish on this point, Leader of the Opposition, I am six foot three inches and 102 kilos. Work out who is little! You left us with this debt legacy.
ANSWER
Madam Speaker, this is about Territorians. I do not want to verbal the member for Namatjira, the Minister for Regional Development and Women’s Policy and Local Government, but what she cares about - we have a quiet chat from time to time, she is a good friend of mine, a good colleague, and she cares about the $5.5bn Labor debt. If you ask her she will tell you she really cares about Labor debt.
Member for Fong Lim, what do you care about? Labor debt. The members for Araluen and Greatorex - we could keep going, it is all Labor debt. In Cabinet we talk about Labor debt. How do we fix Labor debt? There is $5.5bn of Labor debt, divide that by 230 000 Territorians and see how much impact and debt you have laid on every person in the Northern Territory.
Ms LAWRIE: A point of order, Madam Speaker! Standing Order 113: relevance. He is not answering the question. Are you so deeply ashamed of your behaviour that you will not even come into the Chamber and explain it?
Madam SPEAKER: There is no point of order.
Mr GILES: Thank you very much. How can the Leader of the Opposition use the word ‘ashamed’ in a relevance question. You must be talking about yourself. You have to be ashamed of the financial state you left the Northern Territory in. You should say sorry. You should apologise to Territorians for leaving us in this position.
Ms WALKER: A point of order, Madam Speaker! Standing Order 113. A very direct question has been asked of the Chief Minister. I ask you to direct the Chief Minister to answer the question not deflect from it.
Madam SPEAKER: There is no point of order. The Chief Minister has the latitude and is, no doubt, getting to the answer.
Mr GILES: Thank you, Madam Speaker. I wish the member for Nhulunbuy understood the rules of parliament and how it works. Returning to the initial question, I do not need to harp on too much about Labor’s $5.5bn debt which Delia Lawrie left us with when we came to government.
I would like to finish on this point, Leader of the Opposition, I am six foot three inches and 102 kilos. Work out who is little! You left us with this debt legacy.
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