Mr GUNNER - 2011-03-30
Can you please update the House on the government’s position on the proposed Angela Pamela uranium mine 20 km from Alice Springs? Are there any alternative policies that you are aware of?
ANSWER
Madam Speaker, this is the second part the opposition did not want the people of Alice Springs to hear; and that is their absolute deceit, deception and lies to the people of Alice Springs …
Members interjecting.
Madam SPEAKER: Chief Minister, could you just reword that last part and withdraw.
Mr HENDERSON: Madam Speaker, their total deceit and deception over this issue in Alice Springs …
Members interjecting.
Madam SPEAKER: He reworded; it is fine.
Mr HENDERSON: We had an appalling contribution by the Leader of the Opposition who put his hand on his heart and said we have to allow due process to continue. As the Leader of the Opposition in the Araluen by-election, he ran an entire campaign focused on not supporting a uranium mine at Angela Pamela. That was in October last year.
In election advertisements placed in the Centralian Advocate on 5 October by the member for Araluen, the first commitment made to the people of Araluen was to oppose the Angela Pamela uranium mine. Not only that, the member for Araluen wrote to everyone in the electorate - 2500 homes - saying very clearly ...
Mr BOHLIN: A point of order, Madam Speaker! It comes to relevance. His own member asked him a dorothy dixer. He is not even answering the question, so get back to the point of order.
Madam SPEAKER: The Chief Minister has the call.
Mr HENDERSON: The intellectual giant, the member for Drysdale, missed the part of the question which was: are there any opposing views? The opposing views were distributed to 2500 households in Araluen, saying: ‘Vote for me on Saturday and the Country Liberal Party will oppose the Angela Pamela uranium mine’.
We know the Leader of the Opposition had his position overturned by the party. It was not overturned by the parliamentary wing; it was overturned as a result of pressure by his loyal deputy, the member for Goyder, and the member for Fong Lim, who took this issue to Central Council, the faceless men and women who sit in Darwin, Litchfield and Alice Springs, and have forced him to backflip and say the Country Liberal Party believes this mine should go ahead.
We have also seen the amazing position of the member for Greatorex, who has campaigned against this, who has been caught out red-handed sending e-mails to Cameco about how they should muscle up on the community here in Alice Springs and spend a heap of money to convince them that the mine is in their own interests ...
Madam SPEAKER: Chief Minister, your time has expired.
Mr HENDERSON: …the opposition’s position is an absolute disgrace.
Madam SPEAKER: Chief Minister, resume your seat.
ANSWER
Madam Speaker, this is the second part the opposition did not want the people of Alice Springs to hear; and that is their absolute deceit, deception and lies to the people of Alice Springs …
Members interjecting.
Madam SPEAKER: Chief Minister, could you just reword that last part and withdraw.
Mr HENDERSON: Madam Speaker, their total deceit and deception over this issue in Alice Springs …
Members interjecting.
Madam SPEAKER: He reworded; it is fine.
Mr HENDERSON: We had an appalling contribution by the Leader of the Opposition who put his hand on his heart and said we have to allow due process to continue. As the Leader of the Opposition in the Araluen by-election, he ran an entire campaign focused on not supporting a uranium mine at Angela Pamela. That was in October last year.
In election advertisements placed in the Centralian Advocate on 5 October by the member for Araluen, the first commitment made to the people of Araluen was to oppose the Angela Pamela uranium mine. Not only that, the member for Araluen wrote to everyone in the electorate - 2500 homes - saying very clearly ...
Mr BOHLIN: A point of order, Madam Speaker! It comes to relevance. His own member asked him a dorothy dixer. He is not even answering the question, so get back to the point of order.
Madam SPEAKER: The Chief Minister has the call.
Mr HENDERSON: The intellectual giant, the member for Drysdale, missed the part of the question which was: are there any opposing views? The opposing views were distributed to 2500 households in Araluen, saying: ‘Vote for me on Saturday and the Country Liberal Party will oppose the Angela Pamela uranium mine’.
We know the Leader of the Opposition had his position overturned by the party. It was not overturned by the parliamentary wing; it was overturned as a result of pressure by his loyal deputy, the member for Goyder, and the member for Fong Lim, who took this issue to Central Council, the faceless men and women who sit in Darwin, Litchfield and Alice Springs, and have forced him to backflip and say the Country Liberal Party believes this mine should go ahead.
We have also seen the amazing position of the member for Greatorex, who has campaigned against this, who has been caught out red-handed sending e-mails to Cameco about how they should muscle up on the community here in Alice Springs and spend a heap of money to convince them that the mine is in their own interests ...
Madam SPEAKER: Chief Minister, your time has expired.
Mr HENDERSON: …the opposition’s position is an absolute disgrace.
Madam SPEAKER: Chief Minister, resume your seat.
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