Page 4530 - Week 15 - Thursday, 22 November 1990
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you were originally on about, which was to appropriately - although I disagree with it; but, from your perspective, appropriately - cut that amount of money from the budget.
You had got into the idea that you were going to close schools, and that is all there was to it. You did not want to be too embarrassed by not being able to do it any other way. You had the options. You had the ways of doing it. You had the compromises. You had the community backing down and being prepared to look at many of the other options, but you were not prepared to accept it. Instead, you just ploughed on in a bloody-minded manner.
Proposed expenditure agreed to.
Proposed expenditure - Division 270 - Non-government Education, $52,933,000 - agreed to.
Proposed expenditure - Division 280 - The Arts, $8,526,000 - agreed to.
Proposed expenditure - Division 290 - Ministry and Corporate Support, $11,727,100 - agreed to.
Proposed expenditure - Division 300 - Health Policy and Planning, $2,138,700 - agreed to.
Proposed expenditure - Division 310 - Hospital Services, $176,712,100
MR SPEAKER: I call Mr Berry.
Mr Duby: I thought it would be too good to be true.
MR BERRY (4.49): I heard an interjection that it would be too good to be true. I think it meant that it would be too good to be true that the Labor Opposition would pass up the opportunity to expose this Government on its poor management.
Mr Kaine: Of yet again talking about ripping the guts out of the hospital system.
MR BERRY: And, indeed, ripping the guts out of the hospital system, as you put it.
Mr Kaine: And destroying the social fabric. You missed that one.
MR BERRY: They are your words, but they will do, Chief Minister.
Mr Kaine: They are your words. I am just reminding you that you have not used them lately.
MR BERRY: You would be comfortable with destroying the social fabric.
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