Page 1494 - Week 06 - Wednesday, 2 May 1990
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On the other hand, on the very day that this matter came to light, Mr Kaine, as Minister for the environment, brought to the Assembly his statement entitled Developing an ACT Strategy to Respond to the Greenhouse Effect. As part of that strategy, Mr Kaine has told us that the Alliance Government's actions proposed in the recycling area are:
Providing recycling facilities at convenient locations, covering paper, oil, glass, timber, plastics, mulch, soil and scrap metal; recycling material collection systems and information on recycling opportunities for local businesses.
In his statement, Mr Kaine went on to say that a further action proposed by him, as environment Minister, was:
... considering urgently the waste management initiatives proposed in the recently tabled report of the Assembly's Standing Committee on Conservation, Heritage and Environment - Inquiry on Waste Management Practices in the ACT.
Mr Kaine came out with that statement on the very day that Mr Duby's dubious actions came to light. How is that for getting your act together?
The proposal that Mr Kaine has come forward with is quite correct. It is the appropriate course of action in looking at the question of recycling in the ACT. The Assembly has before it a report from a committee to which we have not yet had the Government's response and Mr Kaine proposes to consider that urgently - that is in his report and that is quite correct. But on the very same day, Mr Kaine's Government closes down the Ainslie Transfer Station over Dr Kinloch's protest. How is that for getting your act together? How is that for an alliance?
It is an absolute sham and it exposes this Government once and for all, if further exposure were needed, as a sham. It is an alliance of convenience; it has no coherent policies; it is incapable of coherent action on the most basic matter such as waste collection; and it has demonstrated that once and for all.
Mr Speaker, I support Mr Moore's motion. I think it is appropriate that the Assembly as a whole supports Mr Moore's motion. Quite clearly, the Minister for Finance and Urban Services has made the wrong decision. In his report, Mr Kaine indicates that. Dr Kinloch has said that publicly. Why would you all want to close ranks around Mr Duby, your weak link, to cover up a bad decision? Why not let this Assembly, which is the appropriate forum for these matters to be discussed, require that Mr Duby keep open the Ainslie Transfer Station? I feel that members of the Government are so embarrassed by this matter that they will, of course, close ranks.
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