Page 1043 - Week 06 - Thursday, 27 July 1989
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A member: Can't you take a joke, Wayne?
MR BERRY: We have been putting up with a joke ever since we have been here. The fact of the matter is you were prepared to deliver a casino where it would not work. The Residents Rally is clearly an anti-development party.
Mr Jensen: Go on. We have some planning concepts and understanding of planning.
MR BERRY: Well, over and over again you are trying to stop development and stop progress in the ACT - you are an anti-worker party.
Mr Jensen: Read my report, Wayne.
MR SPEAKER: Order! Members will address their comments through the Chair.
Mr Jensen: I am sorry, Mr Speaker.
MR BERRY: And you oppose the delivery of jobs to Canberrans.
Mr Moore: On a point of order, Mr Speaker; Mr Berry knows certainly that the Residents Rally has encouraged time and time again development in Tuggeranong, so he is attempting to mislead the house.
MR SPEAKER: Mr Moore, that is not a point of order.
MR BERRY: You would not propose to do much development around your own front doorstep, Mr Moore. You have got a long history of trying to preserve a privileged enclave for a few of your supporters, but you forget about the rest of Canberra. We have got to deliver for the rest of the Territory. I must say that I view Dr Kinloch's passionate speech about gambling with some sympathy, and addictions of any order are a great problem to society. But I must add that I felt that the arguments that the good doctor put had some similarities to the arguments that were put in the prohibition days, and I do not think they are particularly relevant.
I would say from my own point of view that, where there are people with any sort of addiction, they deserve proper assistance that flows from a good, socially based health and welfare policy. But it is not an issue in this debate. It is not something on which one would seek to prevent progress. The fact of the matter is life goes on. This Assembly will now deliver a project that will provide hundreds of jobs for people of the ACT. Our children will get jobs.
If we take the Residents Rally's position, of course we will be able to burden the Commonwealth with all of our unemployed. Mind you, the lawns will stay green around
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