Ms CARNEY - 2005-08-16
In light of your last answer, how do you reconcile that with the promise made by your leader, the Chief Minister, on the eve of the election, that there would be no more uranium mining in the Northern Territory? What was the basis upon which the Chief Minister made that claim? Were you in agreement with it, and did you know that the Chief Minister was deliberately misleading Territorians when she made that claim, or was it, as the member for Arafura said, just politics?
ANSWER
Madam Speaker, if there is somebody here who likes to mislead Territorians it is the Leader of the Opposition. It is the Leader of the Opposition who has been out there saying that the Northern Territory minister gave away the rights of the Northern Territory on uranium …
Members: You did!
Mr VATSKALIS: We did not; we never had any right.
Ask for the statement by the Chief Minister. The Chief Minister reiterated Labor Party policy that has been in place for 20 years. It has been in books, leaflets, on our web page. Our policy – by the Northern Territory Branch of the Labor Party; it was a decision by our party – is no new uranium mines in the Northern Territory. We still believe in that.
We were bulldozed by the Commonwealth government. They came in and said: ‘We are going to open new uranium mines’. Well, our policy is no new uranium mines in the Northern Territory – full stop.
ANSWER
Madam Speaker, if there is somebody here who likes to mislead Territorians it is the Leader of the Opposition. It is the Leader of the Opposition who has been out there saying that the Northern Territory minister gave away the rights of the Northern Territory on uranium …
Members: You did!
Mr VATSKALIS: We did not; we never had any right.
Ask for the statement by the Chief Minister. The Chief Minister reiterated Labor Party policy that has been in place for 20 years. It has been in books, leaflets, on our web page. Our policy – by the Northern Territory Branch of the Labor Party; it was a decision by our party – is no new uranium mines in the Northern Territory. We still believe in that.
We were bulldozed by the Commonwealth government. They came in and said: ‘We are going to open new uranium mines’. Well, our policy is no new uranium mines in the Northern Territory – full stop.
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