House debates

Tuesday, 22 June 2021

Grievance Debate

Luna Park: Ghost Train Fire

5:29 pm

Photo of Jason FalinskiJason Falinski (Mackellar, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Imagine it's a Saturday afternoon and you and your family are thinking of the best way to spend some fun time with each other, to enjoy each other's company. So in this moment you decide to go to an amusement park on the harbour of Sydney. You may, at one point, hear your children urging you to allow them to go on one of the rides, and as a parent you offer them the tickets and see them go and enter the ride that is there. Moments later, you see smoke billowing from that same ride. Moments after that, you realise that people have died. How could you live with yourself? This is what happened in Sydney not that many years ago.

We often hear from those who pretend to care about the less fortunate, who argue that transparent government is the only decent form of government, that if a government will not release information it must be hiding something, and that what it is hiding is in all likelihood a conspiracy. I've therefore found the complete lack of curiosity, bordering on antipathy, from these aforementioned individuals somewhat interesting, if not shocking, when it comes to the Luna Park disaster that was the ghost train fire. Could this stay in curiosity and proactive antipathy be driven by clinical bias? Perhaps this bias directly led to the enabling of the corruption practised by Eddie Obeid for 16 years under the likes of Bob Carr and Kristina Keneally. The only time these purveyors of sanctimony decided they were interested was once there was a change of government.

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