❓ Mr Rundle questions the Premier on the government's stance on the Bladin Village quarantine proposal for skilled agricultural workers. The Premier deflects responsibility to the Commonwealth government and criticises their lack of support, while also attacking the federal National Party and state Liberal Party.
AnsweredQoN 493Legislative Assembly
QuestionView source ↗
CORONAVIRUS — SKILLED AGRICULTURAL WORKERS —BLADIN
VILLAGE, NORTHERN TERRITORY
493. Mr P.J. RUNDLE to the Premier:
I have a supplementary question. Is
it the Premier or his Minister for Agriculture and Food who refuses to support
the Bladin Village quarantine proposal?
VILLAGE, NORTHERN TERRITORY
493. Mr P.J. RUNDLE to the Premier:
I have a supplementary question. Is
it the Premier or his Minister for Agriculture and Food who refuses to support
the Bladin Village quarantine proposal?
AnswerView source ↗
I
repeat to the member: we have put a proposition to the commonwealth. It is up
to the commonwealth what it does . We have tried for 18 months to help
the farming industry. As I said yesterday, we brought in people from Vanuatu
and Tonga to quarantine in hotels here and help in horticulture. Obviously,
when people are coming from countries with COVID, it is a different matter, and
how we bring them in is a different matter, so that is a matter for the
commonwealth. We put it to the commonwealth. What I have noticed over the
course of the last 18 months, again, as I said
yesterday, the commonwealth is very reluctant to use its facilities; in fact,
it will not. It has done it once. It will
not. Even when it is a humanitarian mission like Afghanistan, the commonwealth
turns to the states. We go out and help when required; the commonwealth
slopes its shoulders. It is unfortunate that the National Party federally will not help the farming community of Australia;
it is unfortunate that it will not do anything to assist. It is unfortunate that Barnaby Joyce will not lift his finger. It is unfortunate that Mr
Littleproud will not lift his finger.
Dr D.J. Honey interjected.
Mr M. McGOWAN : It is
unfortunate that the Leader of the Liberal Party will not stand up to Peter
Collier and Nick Goiran, it is unfortunate
that he has no leadership ability, but there it is. They are the facts. We have
two Liberals in this house who
interject on me, and there is one issue raging in the Liberal Party, which is
the misogyny of people in the Liberal Party who run the organisation,
who refer to women as ''sandwich makers'', and we do not have the
Leader of Liberal Party say boo about it. Does that not show the state of the
Liberal Party? Whilst Mr Goiran and Mr Collier are in this Parliament, the
Liberal Party is not fit for office.
repeat to the member: we have put a proposition to the commonwealth. It is up
to the commonwealth what it does . We have tried for 18 months to help
the farming industry. As I said yesterday, we brought in people from Vanuatu
and Tonga to quarantine in hotels here and help in horticulture. Obviously,
when people are coming from countries with COVID, it is a different matter, and
how we bring them in is a different matter, so that is a matter for the
commonwealth. We put it to the commonwealth. What I have noticed over the
course of the last 18 months, again, as I said
yesterday, the commonwealth is very reluctant to use its facilities; in fact,
it will not. It has done it once. It will
not. Even when it is a humanitarian mission like Afghanistan, the commonwealth
turns to the states. We go out and help when required; the commonwealth
slopes its shoulders. It is unfortunate that the National Party federally will not help the farming community of Australia;
it is unfortunate that it will not do anything to assist. It is unfortunate that Barnaby Joyce will not lift his finger. It is unfortunate that Mr
Littleproud will not lift his finger.
Dr D.J. Honey interjected.
Mr M. McGOWAN : It is
unfortunate that the Leader of the Liberal Party will not stand up to Peter
Collier and Nick Goiran, it is unfortunate
that he has no leadership ability, but there it is. They are the facts. We have
two Liberals in this house who
interject on me, and there is one issue raging in the Liberal Party, which is
the misogyny of people in the Liberal Party who run the organisation,
who refer to women as ''sandwich makers'', and we do not have the
Leader of Liberal Party say boo about it. Does that not show the state of the
Liberal Party? Whilst Mr Goiran and Mr Collier are in this Parliament, the
Liberal Party is not fit for office.
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