Page 1809 - Week 07 - Wednesday, 30 May 1990
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MR MOORE: You are. What we have is a methodology which transfers the services from the public sector to the private sector. In principle and conceptually, this Government has failed to reach any goals in terms of social justice and equity. That is the anti-social-justice team across there.
Mr Collaery: What a joke! This is the bloke who broke ranks and insisted on a car.
MR MOORE: Mr Collaery draws attention to breaking ranks and insisting on a car when he drives a Fairlane with a phone in it. I love it! Members of the anti-social-justice and anti-equity team over there have no idea what it is all about. They have made their decisions and set their priorities in terms of economics and economics alone, instead of setting out a series of social goals. They have failed to establish their framework; they have failed to set out their structure in consultation with the people of Canberra. They have failed as a government and they will continue failing. If they had set out their priorities in terms of social goals - and this goes back to Mr Langmore's point - then they could work out where they were going to spend money and where the community wanted to see cuts. Members opposite would not then have found this massive move in the community to unseat them, to unload them, to get rid of them. The people are sick of this Government. They do not trust it because it is anti-social-justice. The community recognises that.
Education is one of our main methods of ensuring and retaining long-term social justice because public education provides people, irrespective of their background, with the opportunity of making their contribution to our society. That is what this Government is missing out on. Mr Humphries was very keen to provide us with some facts and to talk about the $1.2m saving that was made by the closure of schools a couple of years ago. In early April there was a request to Mr Humphries from the P and C to provide a breakdown on that $1.2m savings.
Mr Humphries: They have got it.
MR MOORE: They have finally got that breakdown?
Mr Humphries: Yes, some time ago.
MR MOORE: According to the P and C last week they still did not have a satisfactory breakdown. Mr Humphries himself was dissatisfied with what his department had provided as a breakdown of that $1.2m and an indication of where those savings had been made. Mr Humphries tells me now that the breakdown is available; he has told Mr Wood he will provide him with it. Mr Humphries has always provided me with anything that I have requested up to now, so I presume that he will also provide a satisfactory breakdown so that we can do a critical analysis of it. Will you assure me, Mr Humphries, that I will have that as soon as possible?
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