Page 1835 - Week 09 - Wednesday, 18 October 1989
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Mr Prowse: Rubbish!
MR KAINE: Mr Prowse just said that he does not want any community consultation; he wants a decision; he wants a decision now.
Mr Prowse: That was to take it out, not to put it back in.
MR KAINE: Yes, exactly. As long as the decision is in your favour you want the decision now, but if the final decision is not going to be in your favour you do not want the community consulted because it might express a contrary view.
Mr Prowse: On a point of order - - -
MR TEMPORARY DEPUTY SPEAKER: Mr Kaine, would you resume your seat.
Mr Prowse: I claim to have been misrepresented in that statement.
Mr Kaine: Can he present that after the debate is over, Mr Speaker?
MR TEMPORARY DEPUTY SPEAKER: I understand, Mr Prowse, that you can address this matter after Mr Kaine has finished speaking.
Mr Prowse: Is there one rule for Ministers and another for other members of the Assembly? We have already had a point of order.
MR TEMPORARY DEPUTY SPEAKER: Mr Prowse, would you resume your seat. Mr Kaine, please continue.
MR KAINE: I repeat, Mr Speaker, that what the anti-fluoride people want is a decision now, only because they are afraid that if we go into the lengthy community consultation process that we are now proposing the decision may well run against them because the community may disagree with them.
Mr Stevenson: Call a referendum.
MR KAINE: Now we want a referendum. We do not want a decision now; now we want a referendum. That was the other point that I was going to make, Mr Temporary Deputy Speaker. We want a referendum on some issues; we do not want the Assembly or the Government taking decisions. But on this issue we do not want a referendum; we do not want the community input; we want to take the decision now. So I submit that we should seriously think about that and ask ourselves why it is that the anti-fluoride group does not want this community consultation process for which this Bill will provide. I ask myself the question, and I would like to know the answer. The two polls that have been
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