Page 4264 - Week 15 - Tuesday, 20 November 1990
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Ms Follett: On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker: I object to the term "a bunch of hypocrites", and I ask that it be withdrawn.
Mr Kaine: It is commonly used, Mr Deputy Speaker. They use it all the time over there.
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: I do not think that is a problem. Continue, Chief Minister.
MR KAINE: We will go through Hansard and produce a lexicon of the words that they use over there.
Their policy says that they will close schools. It is in your policy statement, and you know it. Yet you come in here and you debate day after day and criticise this Government because we close schools. We implement your policy, and you do not like it.
Mrs Grassby: It is not. It is not in our policy.
MR KAINE: It is in your policy. Read your own policy. The simple fact is, Mr Deputy Speaker - - -
Mr Berry: But we are clean; you are dirty. That is the problem.
MR KAINE: We will get to you, Mr Berry, Mr "do nothing" Berry. That is your solution to everything - do not do anything, because if you do anything you might get criticised. You did nothing on hospitals. All you did was dither.
Mr Berry: On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker: I raise the issue of relevance.
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: I do not think he has reached that stage at all, Mr Berry. Continue, Chief Minister.
Mr Berry: Mr Deputy Speaker, I am also concerned for his health because he looks as though he is just about to blow a fuse.
MR KAINE: I am not going to blow a fuse, but you might when your day comes. Mr Wood talks about dry Liberal stuff. Have a look at Victoria; have a look at South Australia; have a look at Tasmania. Dry Liberal stuff! Good on you, Mr Wood. Where are the Liberals in those three States that are closing schools and firing teachers? You talk about destroying the education system. Have a look at what is happening in those three Labor States. You want to watch what you say because they are boomerangs.
Mr Moore, of course, in his usual fashion could not stick to the point either. His whole attack was a personal denigration of everybody concerned, as is his usual case. Mr Hudson got his information, he said, from the same place
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