Page 675 - Week 03 - Wednesday, 21 March 1990
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MR HUMPHRIES: I know about the promise for money for it, but there was no service established. When we provide for such a service, Mr Speaker, it will be a real service; it will not be a make-believe or phantom service.
I think the claim that this is a lazy Government will disappear: it will disappear when Mr Kaine makes clear the budget strategy which he is going to pursue over the coming two years. That will show very clearly what the kind of work this Government has done over the past four months to put the ACT in a better financial position than it is now - a position which was neglected by the previous Government, but which we have to face up to.
MR BERRY (4.43): I must say that the first 100 days of this joke of a Government opposite has consisted mostly, at least in terms of debate in this place, of spineless and impotent attacks on the former Chief Minister and the sterling job she did while she held that office until she was rolled by the opportunists opposite.
Mr Kaine: If you do not perform, you get rolled. It is as simple as that.
MR BERRY: Stay here and listen to the debate. Do not stroll out. Somebody said a moment ago - and I think it was Mr Humphries - that the Government's achievements list would be far longer than the current one after the Alliance Government had finished the next two years in office - that is if it lasts. One would hope that it would have more substance than the list of what has been done so far. I must say that Mr Collaery is on another flight of fancy. He has been listening to his own propaganda. I must say that nobody can talk more interestingly than somebody who does not have to worry about facts and information; Mr Collaery has certainly proved that.
According to Chief Minister Kaine, the first 100 days in office have strengthened the credibility of the Government. That is a nice claim but, of course, it is not supported by the facts. There have been a couple of public demonstrations about the acceptability of the Government in relation to those issues I raised this morning where Mr Collaery was booed off the stage and these demonstrate that the Government has no credibility. Mr Kaine, of course, will not come out of the woodwork, and he is letting the brave Mr Collaery go out and cop the flak for him.
The fact is that the Government has no credibility and, of course, Mr Duby just keeps his head down. The description of his party as "the now self-glory party" is the best I have heard in this sitting. There can be no claim to credibility by a group of people, widely recognised as opportunistic, who are in power for purely cynical motives after that power grab we saw last December.
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