Page 621 - Week 03 - Wednesday, 21 March 1990
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MR SPEAKER: Thank you. Please get to the point, Mr Berry.
MR BERRY: If the Chief Minister would care just to listen very closely to the words that I am saying instead of being agitated about being found out again, he would realise - - -
MR SPEAKER: Order! Please get to the discussion, Mr Berry.
MR BERRY: The fact is that the amendment the Chief Minister moved is a complete turnaround on what the Government was alleged to - - -
Mr Kaine: I am entitled to move an amendment to any motion.
MR SPEAKER: Order, Mr Kaine. Please proceed, Mr Berry.
MR BERRY: I think it is about time you straightened these people out, Mr Speaker.
MR SPEAKER: Thank you for your direction, Mr Berry. Please get to the point.
MR BERRY: I think the point has been clearly demonstrated and Government members are agitated that they have been found out within a few hours. That is fair enough. Mr Kaine is now leaving the chamber. I would take off too, Mr Kaine - there is more to come. What has happened here is that the Government is so popular - he said, tongue in cheek - that it has had to congratulate itself because nobody else will. Suddenly it has to commend itself on this issue of the VFT project. We can see how popular the Government has been. We saw Mr Bernard Collaery booed off the stage at the Raiders' game.
MR SPEAKER: Order, Mr Berry. In accordance with standing order 58, I ask you to debate the issue before the house.
MR BERRY: I am; I am debating the amendment.
MR SPEAKER: Mr Collaery's appearance on stage somewhere has nothing to do with the debate.
MR BERRY: It is about the popularity of the Government to which you belong, Mr Speaker. I mean I am very sorry if that offends some of the Government members, but the fact is that this is about the Government commending itself, patting itself on the back because it needs to feel that it is popular. That certainly has not been demonstrated by the public reaction to some of the Ministers. Mr Collaery was also booed off Stage 88. Mr Jensen would say that those people were probably emotional because he disagreed with them. Issues such as the environment and people who disagree are merely matters of emotion, they are not matters of fact. The fact is you are unpopular and you
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