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and environment of Canberra; they are provided by having a high quality institution in which to work and in which to do research.
Labor's theme seems to be that because something is not done yesterday it is somehow too late - that because we have not yet got all the costings on the table and because we have not done all the consultation and that sort of thing in front of people, somehow that has all been left undone and will not get done, and therefore some big con has been pulled on the people of Canberra. That is a very consistent theme. It is a deliberately political theme. The Government has not done this work because the stage has not yet been reached for that work to be done. But when it is reached it will be done. (Extension of time granted)
A number of things are obvious to me tonight. One is that this debate is producing all of the innate hostilities that come out of the ALP towards certain bogey men.
Mr Berry: To the Liberal Party, that is right.
MR HUMPHRIES: Well, the Liberal Party is an old one but there are other ones as well. One is the hostility of the ALP towards institutions of learning and to the intellectual freedom which goes with institutions of higher learning. That is one thing. A second thing is the hostility of the Labor Party towards the medical profession.
Mr Berry: Who said that?
MR HUMPHRIES: It came through every word you said, Mr Berry - this hostility on behalf of the ALP towards the medical profession. Doctors are fat cats. Doctors are people who drive big cars and earn gallons of money and do not really deserve to have any notice taken of them. That is the impression that comes through from the ALP.
Ms Follett: I raise a point of order, Mr Acting Speaker.
MR ACTING SPEAKER: Yes, what is the point of order, Ms Follett?
Ms Follett: Relevance, Mr Speaker. Mr Humphries is supposed to be summing up on a report that has been presented, not giving us a discourse on the policies of the Labor Party.
Mr Kaine: Well, Mr Berry thought that education was relevant.
MR HUMPHRIES: Well, that would be a very amusing subject if I were, in fact, to elaborate on that.
MR ACTING SPEAKER: Order, members! In the debates tonight I think a number of members probably have been guilty of not being terribly relevant to the points at hand.
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