Page 1869 - Week 07 - Wednesday, 30 May 1990
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conservative, and that is the direction in which you are heading. This Government is just trying to hand the money over to the private sector. We get a transfer of money through its policies from the ordinary people to those who are already well and truly endowed with money. This Priorities Review Board document is a masterful example, taken in its entirety, of attempting to do just that. It gives you the excuse and the basis to do it.
So, when it comes to supply and money management, this is the same Treasurer, the same Chief Minister, who in effect threw away $20m. When Senator Walsh made an off-the-cuff ambit claim comment it was grasped by our supposed negotiator who said, "Hooray, yes, it's $100m" when the Grants Commission, as he pointed out yesterday, had identified only $80m. So clearly, on grasping a figure like that, the Chief Minister has in effect thrown away $20m because of his lousy negotiating tactics.
Mr Kaine: That was four years ago, mate. Use your brain if you have one. Just add the CPI to it for four years.
MR MOORE: Mr Speaker, I refer to standing order 202(e). You have drawn this man to order. He was drawn to order on several occasions by - - -
MR SPEAKER: Please proceed, Mr Moore.
MR MOORE: Our Chief Minister and our Finance Minister are supposedly our negotiators. Mr Duby probably is a much better negotiator than most of them. He has been able to hold his little power position there against all odds. When you look at the 3, 3, 4 numbers, the four Liberals have two members in their - - -
Mr Duby: To double transport funding from ATAC, which no other State could do.
Mr Humphries: He's an asset. You'd better keep him.
MR MOORE: I said he was a good negotiator. That is not enough for the other things, but he is a good negotiator. His party has you, Mr Speaker, and him as a Minister - two major positions - with only three members. The Liberals managed to get two positions - they have four members - and there is the good old Residents Rally dragging behind.
Mr Duby: The best part is that you missed out.
MR MOORE: Exactly. That is the best part; I could not agree with you more strongly, Mr Duby. Let us get that on the record. I am so pleased that I have not lost my credibility by being part of that absolute joke of a government, that absolute farce of a government, as it is seen by the community. I am delighted not to be a part of it. I think that its money management skills, as I have carefully explained in terms of its setting its goals, are totally up the pole. It has no idea how to do it, and that will be seen by the community in due time.
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