Ms LEE - 2013-05-16
Yesterday the Opposition Leader delivered her embarrassing budget reply. Can you explain to the House why Territorians cannot take the Leader of the Opposition seriously in anything she says or does?
ANSWER
Madam Speaker, I thank the member for Arnhem for her question. It is true the Opposition Leader has many problems when it comes to understanding the financial situation of the Northern Territory. I heard her banging on yesterday about state final demand. It is interesting because the first time she ever did that was within the last couple of days.
The genuine recognised index for understanding growth is gross domestic product if you are a nation, and gross state product if you are a state or territory. Looking at state final demand is no way of assessing economic growth. State final demand is very volatile. If the Opposition Leader took two seconds to look at page 20 of the economic book she would notice why you do not talk about state final demand.
You talk about gross state product, and the Northern Territory economy is set to grow strongly at 5% predicted for next year and 7% the year after. In 2014-15, the Northern Territory will have the strongest economic growth in the nation.
Ms LAWRIE: A point of order, Madam Speaker! Standing Order 113: relevance. Are you not even a little embarrassed of crowing about Labor’s economic record?
Madam SPEAKER: Opposition Leader, I take this opportunity to warn you, not in the formal sense, that when you have a point of order it is specifically a point of order. It is one thing to have a standing order quoted, but it must be a point of order relevant to what you are trying to raise before the House. Treasurer.
Mr TOLLNER: The Opposition Leader is completely irrelevant. She is completely irresponsible, as demonstrated by her budget reply yesterday. The Chief Minister just said we had to listen to the diatribe. It was more of the same. Why are you not spending money on this? Why are you not spending money on that? I remind the Opposition Leader of $5.5bn worth of debt. Not one savings measure did the former Treasurer suggest yesterday. She completely ignores the fact we are borrowing to pay operational costs.
Ms LAWRIE: A point of order, Madam Speaker! The standing order for misleading. I believe it is 28, but I will stand corrected.
Madam SPEAKER: There is no point of order.
Mr TOLLNER: Madam Speaker, a fiscally irresponsible former Treasurer says, ‘Spend more money’. That is the Labor answer to everything - spend, spend, spend. It is a drag not just on current Territorians, this crazy spending proposed by the Opposition Leader, but on future Territorians: our children and their children. We have to rein in spending. We have to live within our means. The Opposition Leader is a complete joke and farce of a former Treasurer.
Madam SPEAKER: Minister, your time has expired.
ANSWER
Madam Speaker, I thank the member for Arnhem for her question. It is true the Opposition Leader has many problems when it comes to understanding the financial situation of the Northern Territory. I heard her banging on yesterday about state final demand. It is interesting because the first time she ever did that was within the last couple of days.
The genuine recognised index for understanding growth is gross domestic product if you are a nation, and gross state product if you are a state or territory. Looking at state final demand is no way of assessing economic growth. State final demand is very volatile. If the Opposition Leader took two seconds to look at page 20 of the economic book she would notice why you do not talk about state final demand.
You talk about gross state product, and the Northern Territory economy is set to grow strongly at 5% predicted for next year and 7% the year after. In 2014-15, the Northern Territory will have the strongest economic growth in the nation.
Ms LAWRIE: A point of order, Madam Speaker! Standing Order 113: relevance. Are you not even a little embarrassed of crowing about Labor’s economic record?
Madam SPEAKER: Opposition Leader, I take this opportunity to warn you, not in the formal sense, that when you have a point of order it is specifically a point of order. It is one thing to have a standing order quoted, but it must be a point of order relevant to what you are trying to raise before the House. Treasurer.
Mr TOLLNER: The Opposition Leader is completely irrelevant. She is completely irresponsible, as demonstrated by her budget reply yesterday. The Chief Minister just said we had to listen to the diatribe. It was more of the same. Why are you not spending money on this? Why are you not spending money on that? I remind the Opposition Leader of $5.5bn worth of debt. Not one savings measure did the former Treasurer suggest yesterday. She completely ignores the fact we are borrowing to pay operational costs.
Ms LAWRIE: A point of order, Madam Speaker! The standing order for misleading. I believe it is 28, but I will stand corrected.
Madam SPEAKER: There is no point of order.
Mr TOLLNER: Madam Speaker, a fiscally irresponsible former Treasurer says, ‘Spend more money’. That is the Labor answer to everything - spend, spend, spend. It is a drag not just on current Territorians, this crazy spending proposed by the Opposition Leader, but on future Territorians: our children and their children. We have to rein in spending. We have to live within our means. The Opposition Leader is a complete joke and farce of a former Treasurer.
Madam SPEAKER: Minister, your time has expired.
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