❓ Mr. Ripper questions Premier Barnett about electricity price increases impacting pensioners, alleging they are suffering and that the Premier previously told them to "rug up." Premier Barnett denies making the statement and refuses to answer the questions, demanding proof of his alleged comment.
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ELECTRICITY PRICE INCREASES — PENSIONERS
This will be the third winter in a row that the pensioners of this state will suffer severely because of savage increases to their cost of living. (1) Is it acceptable that pensioners who are not able to pay their gas bills are eating their meals-on-wheels cold? (2) Is it acceptable that grandparents who are carers for their grandchildren are showering cold and having one meal a day each to be able to provide for their grandkids? (3) What is the Premier’s message to pensioners this year, given that last year he told them simply to rug up? Mr C.J. BARNETT
This will be the third winter in a row that the pensioners of this state will suffer severely because of savage increases to their cost of living. (1) Is it acceptable that pensioners who are not able to pay their gas bills are eating their meals-on-wheels cold? (2) Is it acceptable that grandparents who are carers for their grandchildren are showering cold and having one meal a day each to be able to provide for their grandkids? (3) What is the Premier’s message to pensioners this year, given that last year he told them simply to rug up? Mr C.J. BARNETT
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(1)–(3) At no stage did I say to pensioners, “Rug up.” I would expect that if the Leader of the Opposition comes in with a prepared question, it would be accurate. I invite him to give me documentary evidence, or a tape or a Hansard comment in which I told pensioners to rug up. Have you got that? No! It is a fictitious question; I am not even going to bother answering it.
(1) Is it acceptable that pensioners who are not able to pay their gas bills are eating their meals-on-wheels cold? (2) Is it acceptable that grandparents who are carers for their grandchildren are showering cold and having one meal a day each to be able to provide for their grandkids? (3) What is the Premier’s message to pensioners this year, given that last year he told them simply to rug up? Mr C.J. BARNETT replied: (1)–(3) At no stage did I say to pensioners, “Rug up.” I would expect that if the Leader of the Opposition comes in with a prepared question, it would be accurate. I invite him to give me documentary evidence, or a tape or a Hansard comment in which I told pensioners to rug up. Have you got that? No! It is a fictitious question; I am not even going to bother answering it.
(2) Is it acceptable that grandparents who are carers for their grandchildren are showering cold and having one meal a day each to be able to provide for their grandkids? (3) What is the Premier’s message to pensioners this year, given that last year he told them simply to rug up? Mr C.J. BARNETT replied: (1)–(3) At no stage did I say to pensioners, “Rug up.” I would expect that if the Leader of the Opposition comes in with a prepared question, it would be accurate. I invite him to give me documentary evidence, or a tape or a Hansard comment in which I told pensioners to rug up. Have you got that? No! It is a fictitious question; I am not even going to bother answering it.
(3) What is the Premier’s message to pensioners this year, given that last year he told them simply to rug up? Mr C.J. BARNETT replied: (1)–(3) At no stage did I say to pensioners, “Rug up.” I would expect that if the Leader of the Opposition comes in with a prepared question, it would be accurate. I invite him to give me documentary evidence, or a tape or a Hansard comment in which I told pensioners to rug up. Have you got that? No! It is a fictitious question; I am not even going to bother answering it.
Mr C.J. BARNETT replied: (1)–(3) At no stage did I say to pensioners, “Rug up.” I would expect that if the Leader of the Opposition comes in with a prepared question, it would be accurate. I invite him to give me documentary evidence, or a tape or a Hansard comment in which I told pensioners to rug up. Have you got that? No! It is a fictitious question; I am not even going to bother answering it.
(1)–(3) At no stage did I say to pensioners, “Rug up.” I would expect that if the Leader of the Opposition comes in with a prepared question, it would be accurate. I invite him to give me documentary evidence, or a tape or a Hansard comment in which I told pensioners to rug up. Have you got that? No! It is a fictitious question; I am not even going to bother answering it.
(1) Is it acceptable that pensioners who are not able to pay their gas bills are eating their meals-on-wheels cold? (2) Is it acceptable that grandparents who are carers for their grandchildren are showering cold and having one meal a day each to be able to provide for their grandkids? (3) What is the Premier’s message to pensioners this year, given that last year he told them simply to rug up? Mr C.J. BARNETT replied: (1)–(3) At no stage did I say to pensioners, “Rug up.” I would expect that if the Leader of the Opposition comes in with a prepared question, it would be accurate. I invite him to give me documentary evidence, or a tape or a Hansard comment in which I told pensioners to rug up. Have you got that? No! It is a fictitious question; I am not even going to bother answering it.
(2) Is it acceptable that grandparents who are carers for their grandchildren are showering cold and having one meal a day each to be able to provide for their grandkids? (3) What is the Premier’s message to pensioners this year, given that last year he told them simply to rug up? Mr C.J. BARNETT replied: (1)–(3) At no stage did I say to pensioners, “Rug up.” I would expect that if the Leader of the Opposition comes in with a prepared question, it would be accurate. I invite him to give me documentary evidence, or a tape or a Hansard comment in which I told pensioners to rug up. Have you got that? No! It is a fictitious question; I am not even going to bother answering it.
(3) What is the Premier’s message to pensioners this year, given that last year he told them simply to rug up? Mr C.J. BARNETT replied: (1)–(3) At no stage did I say to pensioners, “Rug up.” I would expect that if the Leader of the Opposition comes in with a prepared question, it would be accurate. I invite him to give me documentary evidence, or a tape or a Hansard comment in which I told pensioners to rug up. Have you got that? No! It is a fictitious question; I am not even going to bother answering it.
Mr C.J. BARNETT replied: (1)–(3) At no stage did I say to pensioners, “Rug up.” I would expect that if the Leader of the Opposition comes in with a prepared question, it would be accurate. I invite him to give me documentary evidence, or a tape or a Hansard comment in which I told pensioners to rug up. Have you got that? No! It is a fictitious question; I am not even going to bother answering it.
(1)–(3) At no stage did I say to pensioners, “Rug up.” I would expect that if the Leader of the Opposition comes in with a prepared question, it would be accurate. I invite him to give me documentary evidence, or a tape or a Hansard comment in which I told pensioners to rug up. Have you got that? No! It is a fictitious question; I am not even going to bother answering it.
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