Page 2260 - Week 08 - Thursday, 7 June 1990
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Assembly when consolidated revenue is contributed to through this form of tax collecting. I sincerely invite Mr Stevenson to move his agenda across the lake and seek election there so that we can get onto some of the broader issues in society. Mr Speaker, I table the following papers:
Workers in sex employment -
Copy of letter from the Australian Tax Office to workers in sex employment, C/o Price Waterhouse.
Copy of paper entitled "Taxation" detailing taxation requirements.
Mr Speaker, there is an hypocrisy in that sense in Mr Stevenson's own approach. There is certainly a holier-than-thou approach and we have not seen any comment at all upon whether he has any conscience problem about accepting a salary to serve here.
On the subject of hypocrisy, let me say that often people's lives are like icebergs and there is a lot below the surface. A lot happens in government, as I am sure the Leader of the Opposition knows, that you can never get out to the public. There are very long hours of service and extreme dedication to duty, which I believe many members of the former Government showed here. They worked extremely hard. Certainly there are things going on in government that convince us on the Alliance side of the house that Trevor Kaine is no hypocrite. He says what he says publicly very often and he says what he means.
Mr Stevenson attacks this Government for attacking the morality and the safety of women and children in society. The Chief Minister supported submissions from this Territory that asked the Federal Government to become a signatory to the UN convention on the rights of the child. We have also agreed to an International Labour Organisation convention that provides for work related child-care facilities.
These are real social equity, social justice concerns, Mr Speaker. We have a Chief Minister who, I can say without revealing the confidences of the party room, supports these issues. There is no lack of credibility and no hypocrisy on the side of this Chief Minister on issues that concern the welfare of women, in particular. I can relate one particular instance to the house, and I think it should be said. We recently found out - and I believe the Public Accounts Committee of the Assembly is investigating this - that sums that were put into the women's budget by the Follett-Whalan Government for the building of another women's refuge were not exactly allocated and did not appear as a dispensable sum to us in government. There was a problem. There was an assumption made; the funds were not there when we looked for them; but there was a presumptive application of some funds that came through Commonwealth-State funding.
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