Ms LAWRIE - 2012-10-23
Ms LAWRIE to CHIEF MINISTER
During the election campaign you promised the Deputy Leader of the Opposition, the member for Goyder, would be your Deputy Chief Minister. Why did you lie?
Mr ELFERINK: A point of order, Madam Speaker! That inference cannot be made under the standing orders of this House. I ask the sniping from the Leader of the Opposition be reduced to a straight question.
Ms LAWRIE: I withdraw ‘lie’. Why did you break your promise to Territorians?
ANSWER
Madam Speaker, out of courtesy I thank the Opposition Leader for the question. Opposition Leader, I am as you are, fortunate to be in a position where we lead an executive government made up of members of a very experienced team. In being asked that question, it was an acknowledgement of the capacity of a team to make a decision. At that point, a team had made a decision. When the election occurred there was guidance provided by my parliamentary colleagues. It is a decision of the parliamentary team and I cannot presume upon a decision made by a parliamentary team.
During the election campaign you promised the Deputy Leader of the Opposition, the member for Goyder, would be your Deputy Chief Minister. Why did you lie?
Mr ELFERINK: A point of order, Madam Speaker! That inference cannot be made under the standing orders of this House. I ask the sniping from the Leader of the Opposition be reduced to a straight question.
Ms LAWRIE: I withdraw ‘lie’. Why did you break your promise to Territorians?
ANSWER
Madam Speaker, out of courtesy I thank the Opposition Leader for the question. Opposition Leader, I am as you are, fortunate to be in a position where we lead an executive government made up of members of a very experienced team. In being asked that question, it was an acknowledgement of the capacity of a team to make a decision. At that point, a team had made a decision. When the election occurred there was guidance provided by my parliamentary colleagues. It is a decision of the parliamentary team and I cannot presume upon a decision made by a parliamentary team.
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