Page 1152 - Week 04 - Thursday, 29 March 1990
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I have one final comment, Mr Speaker. When members opposite say that there is a lack of business and there is nothing the Government has to do, that it is just sort of dragging things out, I notice how infrequently members opposite are actually in the chamber to take part in that business and how infrequently they have a contribution to make. That, undoubtedly, adds to the lack of business being transacted by the Assembly because those members do not have any interest in it. They seem to want to put it to one side. Perhaps if they were here fully debating the issues that were being raised by this Government they would appreciate how important these issues are and that we all have important business to transact here. I hope we get a little less hypocrisy and a little more consistency in the approach taken by both sides.
National Wheelchair Games
MR DUBY (Minister for Finance and Urban Services) (5.54): Mr Speaker, I rise to make a couple of comments on what the Leader of the Opposition stated about how parties can be true to their principles, about the Rally losing theirs and about the No Self Government opposing theirs. These days when I sit and look at the Australian Labor Party opposite me I often wonder when was the last time the Labor Party represented the working man and woman of Australia.
We have the ludicrous situation of a government which has been returned federally - the running mates of these chums over here - and which delights in the fact that its economic strategy is working and that people are being thrown out of jobs. "Don't you worry, we're right on target, pretty soon we'll have more people out of work than we currently have now. We'll have a recession". I ask you, is that sticking to the principles of that great party that was founded in Queensland in the last century? The answer is "No".
Apart from that, Mr Speaker, there is the matter that I wish to raise in this adjournment debate about an event that is occurring in the ACT this coming weekend. It is the sixteenth national wheelchair games. They are going to be held over quite a long period of time at a number of venues throughout the ACT, most particularly though at the Bruce athletics stadium. On behalf of everyone here I would like to welcome the 600 competitors in these wheelchair games and hope that their strivings and their achievements do not go unnoticed.
I know that I will have the support of the members opposite in this - or I should say the member opposite from the Labor Party and Mr Stevenson, the only two people who are non-Government members in this Assembly at the moment. I know that this proposal originally received support from Ms Follett and her Government. Of course, it has received
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