Page 1504 - Week 06 - Wednesday, 2 May 1990
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Mr Kaine: To wallow in the garbage like you have been doing.
MR SPEAKER: Order! Mr Kaine, please!
MR BERRY: That is about the second or the third time he has interjected. As I was saying, it would have been easy to wallow in the warmth of an electoral win over this issue and just sit back and enjoy the luxury of it, but we are duty-bound to ensure that this important facility is reopened. In supporting Mr Moore's motion, we will do our very best to achieve that by embarrassing this Government into a position of some sense, which I am sure it will find fairly difficult in its current frame of mind.
The contempt that has been shown for the electorate by the Government and Ministers in that Government, not only on this issue, was exemplified by Minister Duby's statements which were reported on the ABC this morning. There was a very clear admission that the community had not been properly consulted. This was said in an arrogant way, which suggests that the community will not be properly consulted any more. In fact, that was confirmed later in the report. Mr Duby did say that in future the Government would consider more consultation, but that would not change anything. Is that what he calls consultation? I think that sort of contempt and the reflection that it casts on the Government will be to the Labor Opposition's advantage when it comes to an election in due course.
We also saw yesterday the sorrowful face of Mr Humphries when he admitted that Mr Duby's actions were wrong and it should have been done differently. But Mr Humphries is so preoccupied with making hard decisions that he was prepared to accept it anyway.
It is the issue of consultation and the acceptance of other peoples' views - in particular, those of the electorate - which is at the heart of this debate. There has been no consultation. The constituency in the area of the transfer station hold this Government in contempt - all of it. They hold it in contempt because of its lack of policies, an admission which has been made by the Chief Minister and - - -
Mr Kaine: I raise a point of order, Mr Speaker. That is an outright lie. I say that deliberately, and I would like him to withdraw it. I have never said anything about our not having policies. I have made the point that we have issued 20 major policies.
MR SPEAKER: Order! Chief Minister, you are debating the issue.
Mr Kaine: It is a lie, and I want it withdrawn.
MR SPEAKER: That is not a point of order, Chief Minister.
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