Mr GUNNER - 2011-05-04
Can you please update the House on the effects the Leader of the Opposition’s budget reply would have on the Northern Territory?
ANSWER
Madam Speaker, with pleasure. Today’s effort from the Leader of the Opposition surely has to go down as the worst budget reply ever. We thought last year was a cracker with the super ghetto, but he managed to make it even worse this year.
It was a policy-free zone, lacking detail, dollars, and direction. The CLP is clearly too racked with their own infighting to come up with anything to benefit Territorians.
The Leader of the Opposition’s speech did not include a single health initiative. It did not include a single education initiative. There was not one job created; no single initiative to help families; no single initiative on the environment; no single initiative on child protection. Unbelievable! His Indigenous policy was contradictory within the same speech. He said families and small businesses need assistance, but he had no initiatives on it.
Our government is delivering a budget that responds to the needs of business and families. Even the former CLP minister, Daryl Manzie, today rated our budget an eight out of 10. The business community has backed the budget - backed the deficit to support jobs, describing it as responsible.
Terry Mills needs to listen to the business community. His budget plan was full of blunders. His plan to sell NT Fleet would cost money. NT Fleet generates around $15m in profit and delivers flow-on effects across the local community to car dealers through the auctions of ex-fleet cars locally.
He wants to save money on advertising, but he is the one who has twice breached the advertising spending legislation - twice! Imagine what he would do if he was in government.
He wants to cut the new prison to deliver a surplus. Despite the fact the prison construction costs are not in the budget, the headworks of $27m are, so it is not a saving because the construction costs are not in there. He does not understand. His own plans for a prison at Katherine etcetera, would cost even more - an extra $97m in capital and an extra $40m per year recurrent operational.
The only new announcements were new layers of bureaucracy: the new layer of bureaucracy for the planning, and a new layer of bureaucracy for the infrastructure - more red tape. So far, Terry Mills has racked up more than $400m in budget promises – see the spendometer we put out on Sunday - and $300m in ongoing costs, with no plan to fund them ...
Mr ELFERINK: A point of order, Madam Speaker! I believe her time has expired.
Madam SPEAKER: Treasurer, your time has expired.
ANSWER
Madam Speaker, with pleasure. Today’s effort from the Leader of the Opposition surely has to go down as the worst budget reply ever. We thought last year was a cracker with the super ghetto, but he managed to make it even worse this year.
It was a policy-free zone, lacking detail, dollars, and direction. The CLP is clearly too racked with their own infighting to come up with anything to benefit Territorians.
The Leader of the Opposition’s speech did not include a single health initiative. It did not include a single education initiative. There was not one job created; no single initiative to help families; no single initiative on the environment; no single initiative on child protection. Unbelievable! His Indigenous policy was contradictory within the same speech. He said families and small businesses need assistance, but he had no initiatives on it.
Our government is delivering a budget that responds to the needs of business and families. Even the former CLP minister, Daryl Manzie, today rated our budget an eight out of 10. The business community has backed the budget - backed the deficit to support jobs, describing it as responsible.
Terry Mills needs to listen to the business community. His budget plan was full of blunders. His plan to sell NT Fleet would cost money. NT Fleet generates around $15m in profit and delivers flow-on effects across the local community to car dealers through the auctions of ex-fleet cars locally.
He wants to save money on advertising, but he is the one who has twice breached the advertising spending legislation - twice! Imagine what he would do if he was in government.
He wants to cut the new prison to deliver a surplus. Despite the fact the prison construction costs are not in the budget, the headworks of $27m are, so it is not a saving because the construction costs are not in there. He does not understand. His own plans for a prison at Katherine etcetera, would cost even more - an extra $97m in capital and an extra $40m per year recurrent operational.
The only new announcements were new layers of bureaucracy: the new layer of bureaucracy for the planning, and a new layer of bureaucracy for the infrastructure - more red tape. So far, Terry Mills has racked up more than $400m in budget promises – see the spendometer we put out on Sunday - and $300m in ongoing costs, with no plan to fund them ...
Mr ELFERINK: A point of order, Madam Speaker! I believe her time has expired.
Madam SPEAKER: Treasurer, your time has expired.
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