Page 4301 - Week 15 - Tuesday, 20 November 1990
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MR SPEAKER: Order!
MR KAINE: You cannot have it both ways. It is interesting that the only capital city of Australia that Mr Moore has not visited - I will draw it to his attention because I am sure he will want to go there - is Hobart. He has been to every other capital city. So, Mr Speaker, if I did not think that I would get a complaint from the other side of the house I would use the word "hypocrisy", but I dare not do that. I would have to say that this is the best example I have ever seen of double standards - what is good for me is not good for the rest.
Mr Speaker, I table this document for incorporation in Hansard.
Leave granted.
Document incorporated at Appendix 2
MR KAINE: In concluding, Mr Speaker, I reiterate the Government's commitment to its budget strategy, which I have outlined before - a strategy which recognises that the ACT Government and community must now rely more and more on their own resources to establish a strong and prosperous Canberra rather than on high levels of Commonwealth assistance. The expenditure proposals outlined in the Appropriation Bill and the supporting budget documentation achieve the goals of that strategy. Once again, Mr Speaker, I commend the Bill to the Assembly. In doing so, I table the Government,s detailed response to the committee's report.
MR BERRY (9.14): I move:
That the debate be now adjourned.
The reason I have moved that the debate be adjourned tonight is that the Government,s response to the Estimates Committee report is a detailed document that is 12 pages long, but the Chief Minister did not have the good grace to provide it to the Opposition in order that a speech could be ready for delivery - - -
Mr Collaery: You did it for us, did you?
Mr Kaine: They did nothing for us, but they expect us to be courteous to them.
MR BERRY: Mr Speaker, I do not mind trying to speak in the debate, but I am not getting much help from the members opposite.
MR SPEAKER: Order! Please proceed, Mr Berry.
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