Page 2231 - Week 11 - Tuesday, 31 October 1989
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It is particularly interesting that even the State of Queensland has come out of the Dark Ages and is supporting daylight saving. I understand that, since the politics have changed up there, those who manufacture curtains do not expect an increase in business because of the change to daylight saving. I expected the new Queensland policies and period of enlightenment, in political terms, to have been expressed by the Liberal Party in their approach to this very important aspect of occupational health and safety legislation.
I said that I would try to relate the Queensland experience to the Residents Rally, and I know that the members of the Residents Rally party are most concerned about their links with the "Joh for Canberra" campaign.
MR SPEAKER: Minister, please remain relevant.
MR BERRY: Indeed I am, Mr Speaker, because I think it is very important to the debate, and I know they are very sensitive about that.
Mr Collaery: This is storytelling. He is telling stories. This is fiction.
MR BERRY: As one who tells a few stories, you would be the first to know. I do not see that there is any fiction in the connection between the Residents Rally party and Queensland politics, because - - -
MR SPEAKER: Order! Minister, that really is not relevant.
MR BERRY: Mr Speaker, with the deepest respect, I think it is relevant because we see that, in relation to the designated work groups, the Residents Rally have taken a very conservative line on this issue.
Mr Moore: Temporarily conservative.
MR BERRY: Well, I am very happy to hear that it is only a temporary aberration, as Mr Moore quite rightly puts it. I hope that, by the end of the debate on this very issue, the Residents Rally will have turned around and seen the reason of the debate which is being fostered by the Government. I think it is most important that we use all of our energy to try to convince the Rally to do a turnaround on this issue.
I must say, with due regard for my colleagues who associate with the Residents Rally party, that they are to be congratulated on their stand in relation to the involved unions. I am sure that the unions that are to be involved in this process would appreciate that, even the Building Workers Industrial Union. Any of those workers in those unions or any other union - and I go to the point that was raised by Dr Kinloch - would unfortunately be in a position of bitterness and hatred, I would suggest, if they felt that the policy of the Residents Rally party in relation to
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