Page 2338 - Week 08 - Thursday, 7 June 1990
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will feel misled by this Government opposite because there were so many promises about how good it would be under self-government. There were so many promises about how self-government would be abolished by one course or another. They now know of course that abolition was furthest from the minds of those who ran for this place, as has been demonstrated by their behaviour after they were elected. But the major parties, the Australian Labor Party and the Liberal Party, made it very clear to the electorate that they would not increase rates.
It is going to be very clear to the electorate next time these two parties go to it that there is one group of people who misled the electorate, and that is the Liberal Party. They will know that there is one party which stood by its guns, and clearly that is Rosemary Follett's Labor Opposition.
We intend to stand by this and ensure that the Liberal Government members opposite - and I include all of them - pay for this imposition that they intend to place on the shoulders of ordinary working people in the street. We will ensure that even the laughing Mr Humphries will pay for this. Mind you, he gets off a bit scot-free in this. I suppose he could be arguing that he was very lucky not to get the top spot, even though he polled better amongst the Liberal Party, because now Trevor Kaine is going to wear it and he might get the chance to be Chief Minister one day. Well, I think the chances are pretty slim.
Mr Duby: He might, but you never will, Wayne.
Mr Humphries: That is right. I have got some chance at least.
MR BERRY: You have got a pretty slim chance. He has got none.
Mr Duby: I never claimed any.
MR SPEAKER: Order!
MR BERRY: I do not want to be Chief Minister because we have got our candidate here for Chief Minister. She will be Chief Minister. She was a good one and she will be a good one again. Mr Speaker, it is entirely relevant to talk about the appropriate person for the Chief Ministership of this Territory because, on the one hand, we have got a person who has betrayed the electorate and, on the other hand, we have a person who has supported the electorate and their wishes.
MR HUMPHRIES (Minister for Health, Education and the Arts) (5.40): I feel compelled to make a few comments, Mr Speaker, that I think will pretty simply demolish what Mr Berry has just said. In the first place, he indicates there is no evidence that a certain number of dollars are required. I wonder what evidence he or his government ever
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