Page 3006 - Week 10 - Thursday, 16 August 1990
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MR DUBY: We are talking about snouts in troughs. How much money has been spent on the hospitality vote by this Government in nine months of government? You will find that it is substantially less, to the point of being downright embarrassing. So, next time we talk about snouts in troughs, I dare you because the figures will be revealed. As I said, next time be careful before these issues are raised because, as usual, you will find that they boomerang back upon you. As usual, whenever this crowd make accusations they live to regret them. I support this. I think it is an eminently sensible proposal, and I look forward to the day when the Executive of the ACT Government does have six members.
MR BERRY (4.10): I smell bacon. Mr Speaker, in the first place, this is clearly about snouts in the trough, but when all of these mealy-mouthed people over here talked about there being no extra costs the pigs flew overhead. This is about power. This is about Trevor Kaine's lust for power, in the first place, and Mr Collaery's ambition for power, secondly.
We have heard these people talk about the accord and how hard worked they are. I would have to say that I am very pleased that none of these people argued the many work value cases that have been argued for workers in this country. If they had, the workers would be starving to death because the arguments that these people have put forward have been completely hollow.
It is clearly a case of snouts in the trough. What is most interesting about it - and I think it rips the carpet from under their feet - is that this great accord, which they all signed and in which they agreed that it would come to pass that there would be extra Ministers as soon as some were called for, was done before they had any experience in the job.
How would that stand up in any arbitration commission? I do not think it would get too far. I would have to say that it will not get too far in the community. That is my greatest concern about the actions of these members opposite because it is the community that has been bucketing this Assembly because of the dismal performance of those opposite since the election was held and this rabble was elected to this place.
It is the electorate which has been screaming about the performance of these members opposite, and now these members opposite invite more criticism, and they drag this place down further. The problem with that is that the responsible members of this house have to wear it as well. I do not like it; neither do my Labor colleagues.
Mr Speaker, why do these people encourage more discredit? It is because some of them know they will not have to be here in the future, and they want to get in and get as much as they can out of it as quickly as they can. It has been
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