Legislative Council - Fifty-Third Parliament, Second Session (53-2)
2016-05-18 Daily Xml

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Arts Funding

The Hon. T.A. FRANKS (15:15): Supplementary.

Members interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: Order! The Hon. Ms Franks.

The Hon. T.A. FRANKS: I would expect a state minister to understand that, given that the state arts minister has announced that there is probably $8.5 million of state cuts to come—he should be actually understanding that they are the cuts that I have asked for a moratorium on, and certainly we seek a moratorium on no state budget cuts.

The Hon. I.K. HUNTER (Minister for Sustainability, Environment and Conservation, Minister for Water and the River Murray, Minister for Climate Change) (15:16): The honourable member just shows again, through her ignorance, that she has absolutely no clue—no clue. Here we have the Greens and the Liberal Party at a federal level doing cosy deals to swap preferences to get a federal Liberal government re-elected—that is what the Greens party is doing to get a federal Liberal government re-elected, swapping preferences interstate—and she has the hide to come in here and complain about that federal Liberal government cutting the arts sector.

Her party is doing dirty deals with the Liberals to get the Liberal Party re-elected at a federal level, and she has the hide to come in here and complain about the federal Liberal government. Take it up with your federal leadership, Hon. Tammy Franks.

The PRESIDENT: The Hon. Mr Stephens. Order! There is a point of order.

The Hon. T.A. FRANKS: On a point of order, a member has had a supplementary for quite a while now.