Page 242 - Week 01 - Thursday, 15 February 1990
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MRS GRASSBY: That is the sad part about it; you could not understand it. Mr Kaine, it takes a great man to be a good listener, and I do not think you are either of those.
Mr Humphries: Especially when they're listening to her.
MRS GRASSBY: Success would never spoil you; you are such an insufferable bore all the time, Mr Humphries, so let us get it straight.
Mr Stefaniak: He's not doing a bad job of the hospitals, though, Ellnor.
MRS GRASSBY: Closing them down? Do you call that a good job? I watched the deputy leader reading the Residents Rally policy. I thought, "What a joke. He sold that out a long time ago". As for Mr Duby, he would sell out for 30 pieces of silver anyway. He would try to tell you that he had great policies for the poor - - -
MR SPEAKER: Order, Mrs Grassby! I believe that is an imputation. Please withdraw that comment.
MRS GRASSBY: I am sorry. I withdraw it, Mr Speaker, because of you. The people of this city will suffer because of the policies of this Government. They are the ones who will suffer. There will be no jobs for the young people; the poor and the old will suffer because the Government will sell off all the assets. When we get back into government there will be nothing left; they will have sold it off and sold this city down the drain, as all tory governments do. That is what this Government is.
It does not have policies for the poor or the old or the young. It only has policies in relation to what it should sell off to its rich friends. This is what it is doing - looking at selling off public housing. What about Northbourne Avenue houses? Do you have the policy of selling them? I decided to sell off two houses, which would give enough money to buy five houses for people - not two in which people cannot live.
Members interjected.
MRS GRASSBY: Do not worry about that, Mr Collaery. I have really got you there, Mr Collaery. They tell me that when you get red and start laughing you are obviously worried. When we get back into government, I hope that they have not sold off enough of the farm that we cannot make it a successful government.
Discussion concluded.
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