Page 3453 - Week 12 - Wednesday, 19 September 1990
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Mr Collaery: Yes, I used to act for one.
MR BERRY: You have made it clear in the past; you are not concerned about them at all, and with all - - -
Mr Kaine: Mr Berry used to act only for himself when he was in the union.
MR BERRY: We can do without your sort of concern for workers in the Territory, the same as we can do without the sorts of concern that have been demonstrated by Mr Kaine and the Liberal Party generally.
Mr Kaine: You got your OH and S Act because we cooperated with you, mate, and don't you forget it.
MR BERRY: The fact of the matter is that we did not need the numbers provided by the Liberal Party.
Mr Kaine: Yes, you did. You would not have had the Act at all.
MR SPEAKER: Order!
Mr Duby: You had better be careful or they will take them away.
MR BERRY: I think that needs to be on the record, Mr Speaker. There are threats that the limited protection that was provided in the Territory might be taken away if the Labor Party does not behave itself. We will be still here fighting for improved occupational health and safety conditions long after this mob opposite are gone.
Mr Kaine: And you will be five miles behind - - -
MR BERRY: We will be here long after you lot are gone and you can rest assured, Mr Speaker, that it will be the Labor Party that will improve benefits for the workers, not the three teams of the Liberal Party, just as it was the Labor Party that introduced into this Assembly legislation to improve the occupational health and safety of workers in this Territory.
It will be the Labor Party that will provide adequate resources to fund the provision of these services in the Territory and it is clear that it is the three teams of the Liberal Party that are preventing adequate protection of workers in this Territory. It is those three teams that will continue to stand in the way of the provision of additional protection for workers who are missing out because of the laziness and tiredness of the people opposite. They seem to be feeding off their fear about the involvement of trade unions in the delivery of occupational health and safety in the workplace.
It was the trade unions in the past who bore the responsibility for protecting their members when the duty
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