Legislative Council - Fifty-Second Parliament, First Session (52-1)
2010-11-23 Daily Xml

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BURNSIDE COUNCIL

The Hon. S.G. WADE (14:45): As a supplementary: could the minister advise the house whether she or the government is subject to an injunction on this matter or whether she or the government has given an undertaking to the court?

The Hon. G.E. GAGO (Minister for State/Local Government Relations, Minister for the Status of Women, Minister for Consumer Affairs, Minister for Government Enterprises, Minister for the City of Adelaide) (14:45): What a lazy opposition! What a lazy, lazy, pathetic opposition. He just goes from worse to worse. He is just shooting himself in the foot. He should just sit there and button up. It is pathetic. Is he so lazy that he has not even bothered to find out what is going on? This matter has been before the court for weeks and weeks and weeks.

Is he so lazy that he has not even bothered to inform himself of the commitment and the undertaking the government has given in relation to the draft report? Is he so lazy that he is not aware of the undertaking that this government has given? How pathetic! Is the honourable member really suggesting that, after giving an undertaking to the court in response to the plaintiffs' request, we should defy that undertaking? Is he so irresponsible and disrespectful that he is suggesting that I defy that undertaking given to the court? That is just outrageous. It is totally irresponsible, totally disrespectful and absolutely disdainful of the court.