Premier
David DAVIS (Southern Metropolitan) (09:39): Today I want to draw the chamber’s attention to the extraordinary events in the Assembly yesterday. I think most people would believe that the pre-emptory rejection by the Assembly, by Daniel Andrews, of the lobbyist bill was the wrong thing to do. This is a serious bill coming directly from the work of the IBAC and directly picking up many of the corrupt practices, frankly, that are occurring across the planning area and the corrupt practices that are occurring with respect to lobbyists who are sitting on government boards. This bill was, following IBAC’s suggestions, seeking to correct these problems in a simple, straightforward bill. For the Premier to reject it without the opportunity for debate – people can have their view, they can modify it, all those sorts of things – and without it actually going anywhere is wrong.
Then there was the extraordinary behaviour of the Premier Daniel Andrews when he attacked Cindy McLeish, calling her a halfwit. What an extraordinary –
A member: Shocking: ‘Halfwit grub’. What is wrong with him?
David DAVIS: ‘Grub’. But what sort of extraordinary, misogynistic, bullying activity is going on there? This is quite wrong. It should not have occurred in this way. But he has history with this. My friend Donna Bauer had bowel cancer, and he lent across the chamber and said, ‘She will be shitting in a bag’. What an extraordinary thing to say –
The PRESIDENT: Order! Mr Davis, you know that making accusations against a sitting member has to be done by way of substantive motion. Your time is up anyway.