Ms FINOCCHIARO - 2012-10-31
Can the minister please inform the House why the Leader of the Opposition’s comments on ABC radio on 4 October:
ANSWER
Madam Speaker, I thank the member for Drysdale for her question. She takes an active interest in this issue in Darwin and Territory-wide.
It was once said to me that government was like a firefighter and the opposition was like a pyromaniac. The Leader of the Opposition has warmed to her newfound mania with a passion ...
Ms LAWRIE: A point of order, Madam Speaker! Offensive. There is no mania, we are holding you to account for your stupid actions.
Madam SPEAKER: Please be seated, Leader of the Opposition, there is no point of order.
Mr ELFERINK: Madam Speaker, she has embraced it with matches, petrol, diesel, and anything else that will burn. The only thing I ask of the Leader of the Opposition is she contains herself in her setting fire to anything she can find, at least, the truth. Unfortunately, she has been on a frolic of her own.
The protective custodies during the operation of the BDR in Alice Springs increased by 57% - 1782 more people were taken into custody in the year during the operation of the BDR in Alice Springs. In the Northern Territory, 25% of all drunks taken into custody were in Alice Springs.
Under the BDR, some pubs in Alice Springs offered to take the scanners inside the bars ...
Ms Lawrie: Three.
Mr ELFERINK: Three of them. It is curious because, on the back of the comments by the Leader of the Opposition, the reference to animal bars is rejected outright by the Australian Hotels Association because it tries its hardest and obeys the laws of the Northern Territory. It describes the language of the Leader of the Opposition as ‘plainly unacceptable’.
One of the problems with having these scanners inside those three bars was the patrons who would normally frequent those bars then went to other hotels in the Alice Springs area. As a consequence, people who were seeking accommodation in those hotels had a negative effect. What the BDR achieved was an increased amount of public drunkenness in Alice Springs. Moreover, what it achieved was an increase in the amount of people being apprehended. It is up to the Leader of the Opposition to at least pursue her mania with the truth.
- The animal bars in Alice Springs are full again and there is a lot more public drunkenness, violence and antisocial behaviour since the BDR was scrapped ...
- ... bottle shops have had to put on security because of the absolute inundation of people.
ANSWER
Madam Speaker, I thank the member for Drysdale for her question. She takes an active interest in this issue in Darwin and Territory-wide.
It was once said to me that government was like a firefighter and the opposition was like a pyromaniac. The Leader of the Opposition has warmed to her newfound mania with a passion ...
Ms LAWRIE: A point of order, Madam Speaker! Offensive. There is no mania, we are holding you to account for your stupid actions.
Madam SPEAKER: Please be seated, Leader of the Opposition, there is no point of order.
Mr ELFERINK: Madam Speaker, she has embraced it with matches, petrol, diesel, and anything else that will burn. The only thing I ask of the Leader of the Opposition is she contains herself in her setting fire to anything she can find, at least, the truth. Unfortunately, she has been on a frolic of her own.
The protective custodies during the operation of the BDR in Alice Springs increased by 57% - 1782 more people were taken into custody in the year during the operation of the BDR in Alice Springs. In the Northern Territory, 25% of all drunks taken into custody were in Alice Springs.
Under the BDR, some pubs in Alice Springs offered to take the scanners inside the bars ...
Ms Lawrie: Three.
Mr ELFERINK: Three of them. It is curious because, on the back of the comments by the Leader of the Opposition, the reference to animal bars is rejected outright by the Australian Hotels Association because it tries its hardest and obeys the laws of the Northern Territory. It describes the language of the Leader of the Opposition as ‘plainly unacceptable’.
One of the problems with having these scanners inside those three bars was the patrons who would normally frequent those bars then went to other hotels in the Alice Springs area. As a consequence, people who were seeking accommodation in those hotels had a negative effect. What the BDR achieved was an increased amount of public drunkenness in Alice Springs. Moreover, what it achieved was an increase in the amount of people being apprehended. It is up to the Leader of the Opposition to at least pursue her mania with the truth.
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