Page 2624 - Week 12 - Thursday, 16 November 1989
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Mr Jensen: Go for it, Wayne.
MR BERRY: I did not waste all that money last year, Norman, so I will be pretty right; I will be able to work my way through it.
Mr Speaker, what has been demonstrated in my speech to this place in relation to the coalition's tax policy is that it is an attack on working people; it is meant to divide families in Australia; it is meant to set the rich apart from the poor - - -
Mr Collaery: What has the Hawke Government done? Wayne, you don't believe that.
MR BERRY: It is meant to set the rich apart form the poor, because the people who will benefit from these sorts of tax arrangements, Mr Collaery, are the rich. Why scrub the capital gains tax and make sure that the richest ones do the best out of it and the poorest do worst? The poorest are under attack. It is quite interesting to see where the Residents Rally is coming from now - supporters of the rich, who oppose any benefits to the poor.
One of the interesting things that Mr Stefaniak raised was the issue of child poverty and the status of it in 1990. The interesting part about that, in my view, is that this will very definitely mean that there will be not very many rich people's children in poverty. They will get plenty of support from the sorts of tax policies that are to be adopted by the Liberals and their right-wing coalition mates. They will be even richer. The same will apply whenever the working class and people at the disadvantaged end of society are attacked by the Liberal Party and their coalition mates, in trying to unload from those people who are most deserving of support vital financial assistance and putting it into the pockets of their rich mates.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
PERSONAL EXPLANATION
MRS GRASSBY: Mr Speaker, I think I was misrepresented by Mr Collaery in relation to the situation which I spoke about the other day on an anniversary. I feel very conscious of that, having a Jewish grandmother. I feel very strongly about it. Therefore I do not like it being said that I got up and spoke on something frivolous which I did not quite believe in. I believe very strongly in it, and I have a terrible fear that it could happen again. That is why I spoke about it.
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