Mrs HICKEY - 1996-11-19
Now that it has been exposed that the Chief Minister personally purchases and uses illegally-obtained, confidential information, will he hand over his illegal database to the Northern Territory police? Will he provide the police with all correspondence to and from his supplier of this illegally-obtained, confidential information?
ANSWER
Mr Speaker, I really despair, and members opposite must despair, to know that this is their leader's great strategy in the final sittings of 1996.
Mr Bailey: You said it came from the AEC.
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Mr STONE: It is a matter of public record that I buy from Feedback Services. I have said so. You are able to quote me, in fact, from February. I have never hidden it. If you want to see correspondence, this is an invoice. Write out a cheque. That is what is in the marketplace, and that is what I am able to buy. If the Leader of the Opposition had bothered to inquire, she would know that Feedback Services operates out of Queensland. I understand that, under the Queensland Electoral Act, birth dates are legal.
At least do your homework before you come in here making this sort of allegation. You really do lack credibility now on all fronts. You would not even go out of your way to travel to Canberra for the handing over of the Remonstrance. You went to a barbecue at Borroloola. To you, that was more important than standing up for the rights of Territorians. I am sure the good folk of Borroloola would have understood if you had been prepared to come in support of the Deputy Chief Minister, Mr Speaker and myself to hand over the Remonstrance. Representatives from the Labor Party in the ACT turned up. The head of government of Norfolk Island turned up. Where was the Northern Territory Leader of the Opposition? She was nowhere to be seen. She had gone to a barbecue at Borroloola. This is the very same Leader of the Opposition who told the Darwin Press Club that she would donate $1500 to sponsor an award called `The Leader of the Opposition's Award for Coverage of a Breaking News Story', and then gave me the bill. You are being caught out over and over again.
This is yet another example of your trying to pre-empt a police inquiry. You cannot contain yourself even to give the police time to complete their inquiry. You tried to verbal the Commissioner of Police, and then blamed it on Channel 8. You have no credibility as Leader of the Opposition and it is time your colleagues did something about it.
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ANSWER
Mr Speaker, I really despair, and members opposite must despair, to know that this is their leader's great strategy in the final sittings of 1996.
Mr Bailey: You said it came from the AEC.
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Mr STONE: It is a matter of public record that I buy from Feedback Services. I have said so. You are able to quote me, in fact, from February. I have never hidden it. If you want to see correspondence, this is an invoice. Write out a cheque. That is what is in the marketplace, and that is what I am able to buy. If the Leader of the Opposition had bothered to inquire, she would know that Feedback Services operates out of Queensland. I understand that, under the Queensland Electoral Act, birth dates are legal.
At least do your homework before you come in here making this sort of allegation. You really do lack credibility now on all fronts. You would not even go out of your way to travel to Canberra for the handing over of the Remonstrance. You went to a barbecue at Borroloola. To you, that was more important than standing up for the rights of Territorians. I am sure the good folk of Borroloola would have understood if you had been prepared to come in support of the Deputy Chief Minister, Mr Speaker and myself to hand over the Remonstrance. Representatives from the Labor Party in the ACT turned up. The head of government of Norfolk Island turned up. Where was the Northern Territory Leader of the Opposition? She was nowhere to be seen. She had gone to a barbecue at Borroloola. This is the very same Leader of the Opposition who told the Darwin Press Club that she would donate $1500 to sponsor an award called `The Leader of the Opposition's Award for Coverage of a Breaking News Story', and then gave me the bill. You are being caught out over and over again.
This is yet another example of your trying to pre-empt a police inquiry. You cannot contain yourself even to give the police time to complete their inquiry. You tried to verbal the Commissioner of Police, and then blamed it on Channel 8. You have no credibility as Leader of the Opposition and it is time your colleagues did something about it.
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