Page 668 - Week 03 - Wednesday, 21 March 1990
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more than one minute of that time was spent on anything within the Minister's portfolio.
Mr Collaery: Anti-discrimination, human rights - - -
MR WOOD: I said not more than one minute. I have been watching and listening most attentively. He carried on an attack on the ALP - and I guess that is fair enough, why should not he, he is entitled - but I had expected him to get up and tell us all the great things that he has done in the last 100 days and that he plans for the future.
Mr Collaery: That is not what the Canberra people want to hear.
MR WOOD: You have conceded to Ms Follett's argument by default and you emphasised that when you said "What we will do is important". "What we will do". You have emphasised that point. You have conceded to the Labor leader.
I want to make one comment. You attacked Mr Whalan for some of the remarks you claimed he made in this Assembly. You have got no right to do that. Mr Collaery, you have got no right to criticise anyone for what they say. I remember when you stood in this spot sometime last year and made outrageous allegations against Mr Whalan. You have got no right to criticise anybody. You have no moral standing at all in that respect.
I want to move on now to contrast the work of the Follett Government and the excellence of its 100 days with the confused and the languid Kaine Government. There are clear differences. I believe any objective assessment sees that the Kaine Government fails miserably in comparison. We should note that the Follett Government started from scratch. We took up the show and made it run. Your Government took over a prosperous running organisation well-founded. You had a running start.
There is a major difference between the two governments that we can compare - and we are in a position where we can compare them because it is not often you see one government for 100 days and another for 100, each with a fairly distinct life. The major difference between these two governments is that the Follett Government had first established the ideals it wished to achieve, then it determined the clear aims to reach those ideals and, finally, it introduced the program to accomplish those aims.
The Follett Government established and followed principles founded in a strategy of social justice. It knew where it was going. Those principles were ones of equity, of equality of rights of access to services and of participation by all. That Government was concerned for every citizen in Canberra and for a Canberra that was pleasant and safe and vital. They were the clear thoughts of the Labor Government. I know, as I sat around in the
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