Mr BURKE - 2005-02-10
I will pick up on the member for Johnston’s comments that government meets its promises. This week, you were completely unable to name one major project that was initiated and completed by your government. You promised to bring Sunrise gas onshore by 2007, forgot your promise, and have now admitted it will not happen. Over 12 months ago, you told Territorians that Cathay Pacific was looking to the Territory as a destination and agreed to a feasibility study. Where is the study, and where are they? Two years ago, you told Territorians you would save hundreds of thousands of dollars by replacing the entire Northern Territory government fleet with electric cars. Where are they?
Let us look at your promise to build a wave pool on the front page of today’s Northern Territory News. Can you inform Territorians listening to this broadcast, particularly Darwinites, how many people will be able to ride the wave in the wave pool at any one time? Is it, as stated in the paper, only one, or is it, as shown in the photo, three? Which is it? How many people can ride the wave pool at one time?
ANSWER
Madam Speaker, in response to the negative attitude about the current state of economic activity in the Territory, I am proud to say we have a number of major projects that have been initiated in the last three years, and are under way, creating jobs and business.
We are proud of this. They are initiatives that we have worked with the private sector over and initiatives which have come from government. This is an economy and a Territory that is too busy to listen to the half-baked, half-truth ramblings of the new Opposition Leader. He says he is yesterday’s man, and his facts are way past yesterday.
The fact that, somehow or other, I promised that the entire government fleet would go electric? I do not even know what he is talking about. We have not seen a serious grasp on reality through any of the questions of this Question Time. We have been down in the gutter, we have been up in the air, we have been in fantasy land …
Dr Burns: We have been on a wave!
Ms MARTIN: Possibly, as the member for Johnston said, on a wave.
When we talk about getting new airlines to the Territory, we are working up business cases and conducting feasibility studies with a number of different airlines. If the Opposition Leader had any kind of reality check about the time it takes to get new airlines into the Territory, he would understand that a lot of work needs to be done. We are doing that work with airlines such as Cathay Pacific, Silk, Malaysia - a number of different airlines to our north. We have been working with Japanese Airlines, which will have their first two charters, big jumbos, coming to Alice Springs at the end of April, early May.
I do not believe the Opposition Leader or the opposition actually understands tourism and the capacity to build tourism and how you do it. Ask for a briefing any time ...
Members interjecting.
Ms MARTIN: I am glad that you are pleased about the wave pool. You must be the only group in the Territory who is talking it down. You are saying: ‘Yes, we have a wave pool, but, but, but’. This is part of the waterfront redevelopment that you would scrap for a car park. It is a sad day for Territorians.
Let us look at your promise to build a wave pool on the front page of today’s Northern Territory News. Can you inform Territorians listening to this broadcast, particularly Darwinites, how many people will be able to ride the wave in the wave pool at any one time? Is it, as stated in the paper, only one, or is it, as shown in the photo, three? Which is it? How many people can ride the wave pool at one time?
ANSWER
Madam Speaker, in response to the negative attitude about the current state of economic activity in the Territory, I am proud to say we have a number of major projects that have been initiated in the last three years, and are under way, creating jobs and business.
We are proud of this. They are initiatives that we have worked with the private sector over and initiatives which have come from government. This is an economy and a Territory that is too busy to listen to the half-baked, half-truth ramblings of the new Opposition Leader. He says he is yesterday’s man, and his facts are way past yesterday.
The fact that, somehow or other, I promised that the entire government fleet would go electric? I do not even know what he is talking about. We have not seen a serious grasp on reality through any of the questions of this Question Time. We have been down in the gutter, we have been up in the air, we have been in fantasy land …
Dr Burns: We have been on a wave!
Ms MARTIN: Possibly, as the member for Johnston said, on a wave.
When we talk about getting new airlines to the Territory, we are working up business cases and conducting feasibility studies with a number of different airlines. If the Opposition Leader had any kind of reality check about the time it takes to get new airlines into the Territory, he would understand that a lot of work needs to be done. We are doing that work with airlines such as Cathay Pacific, Silk, Malaysia - a number of different airlines to our north. We have been working with Japanese Airlines, which will have their first two charters, big jumbos, coming to Alice Springs at the end of April, early May.
I do not believe the Opposition Leader or the opposition actually understands tourism and the capacity to build tourism and how you do it. Ask for a briefing any time ...
Members interjecting.
Ms MARTIN: I am glad that you are pleased about the wave pool. You must be the only group in the Territory who is talking it down. You are saying: ‘Yes, we have a wave pool, but, but, but’. This is part of the waterfront redevelopment that you would scrap for a car park. It is a sad day for Territorians.
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