Mr GUNNER - 2010-05-05
The Territory government is committed to creating and supporting jobs. Can you please advise the House of the investment of Budget 2010-11 that backs this commitment?
ANSWER
Madam Speaker, I thank the member for Fannie Bay for his question. This budget very much is about protecting jobs - $1.8bn in capital expenditure to support 3600 jobs right across the Northern Territory.
One thing is very clear: the Leader of the Opposition has no plan. He has no plan to protect jobs, no plan to create jobs and used the vast part of his reply to talk about the deficit. He refuses to say where he would cut jobs. Who will he cut? Where will he cut? Who will be sacked? Which programs will be cut? Which projects will be sidelined? This is the challenge for the Leader of the Opposition.
The Leader of the Opposition wants to cut jobs, close his eyes, and hope tomorrow brings a better day - that is the extent of his plan. Cut jobs, close your eyes, and somehow hope tomorrow will bring a better day. Well, it just does not work like that, Leader of the Opposition. It will not be a better day for the nurses you sack, for the students who do not get new classrooms, for patients in our hospital system who will see a lack of funding, for the teachers you axe, for the police officers you do not replace, to fund and bring the budget back into balance.
The Leader of the Opposition had an opportunity today, and he totally failed. You cannot rail against the deficit and not say what you would do to bring it back into balance. We had an interjection from the member for Katherine yesterday in this House where, very offensively, he interjected and talked about a bloated public service. He said we had a bloated public service; the CLP would have an efficient public service.
What that means is you will slash jobs. You have an absolute responsibility, Leader of the Opposition, to let Territorians know which jobs you would slash, which capital …
Members interjecting.
Mr HENDERSON: … projects you would not commence, because everyone I have spoken to at the Chamber of Commerce lunch, the Property Council breakfast this morning, have all said this is a responsible thing for government to do, to protect jobs and create jobs in the Northern Territory.
If the Leader of the Opposition wants to criticise the deficit, he has to have a plan to return the budget to balance and to surplus. He did not deliver that plan. He said he was going to form a couple of committees. He is going to create a halfway house somewhere. He talked rubbish about SIHIP; he completely failed in his response today; he has no plan to protect jobs, he only has a plan to cut jobs.
ANSWER
Madam Speaker, I thank the member for Fannie Bay for his question. This budget very much is about protecting jobs - $1.8bn in capital expenditure to support 3600 jobs right across the Northern Territory.
One thing is very clear: the Leader of the Opposition has no plan. He has no plan to protect jobs, no plan to create jobs and used the vast part of his reply to talk about the deficit. He refuses to say where he would cut jobs. Who will he cut? Where will he cut? Who will be sacked? Which programs will be cut? Which projects will be sidelined? This is the challenge for the Leader of the Opposition.
The Leader of the Opposition wants to cut jobs, close his eyes, and hope tomorrow brings a better day - that is the extent of his plan. Cut jobs, close your eyes, and somehow hope tomorrow will bring a better day. Well, it just does not work like that, Leader of the Opposition. It will not be a better day for the nurses you sack, for the students who do not get new classrooms, for patients in our hospital system who will see a lack of funding, for the teachers you axe, for the police officers you do not replace, to fund and bring the budget back into balance.
The Leader of the Opposition had an opportunity today, and he totally failed. You cannot rail against the deficit and not say what you would do to bring it back into balance. We had an interjection from the member for Katherine yesterday in this House where, very offensively, he interjected and talked about a bloated public service. He said we had a bloated public service; the CLP would have an efficient public service.
What that means is you will slash jobs. You have an absolute responsibility, Leader of the Opposition, to let Territorians know which jobs you would slash, which capital …
Members interjecting.
Mr HENDERSON: … projects you would not commence, because everyone I have spoken to at the Chamber of Commerce lunch, the Property Council breakfast this morning, have all said this is a responsible thing for government to do, to protect jobs and create jobs in the Northern Territory.
If the Leader of the Opposition wants to criticise the deficit, he has to have a plan to return the budget to balance and to surplus. He did not deliver that plan. He said he was going to form a couple of committees. He is going to create a halfway house somewhere. He talked rubbish about SIHIP; he completely failed in his response today; he has no plan to protect jobs, he only has a plan to cut jobs.
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