Mr McCARTHY - 2015-02-24
The member for Araluen said:
You threatened to bring down your own government; will you now do the honourable thing for Territorians and call an election?
ANSWER
Madam Speaker, no.
- International convention is such that once a government leader has lost the majority support of his or her colleagues they resign. We were advised it is unprecedented in Australian political history that a leader not resign under these circumstances. Adam Giles did not resign. Instead, he threatened he would prefer to bring down our government and take us to an early election, rather than resign …
You threatened to bring down your own government; will you now do the honourable thing for Territorians and call an election?
ANSWER
Madam Speaker, no.
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