Page 4664 - Week 16 - Tuesday, 27 November 1990
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MR MOORE: Mr Humphries interjects that that was not the whole policy.
Mr Kaine: That is a summary of the policies. Read the comprehensive policies and you will find it.
MR MOORE: Thank you, Chief Minister, for inviting me to read the lot, but I think I have better things to do with my time.
Mr Kaine: Our forward-looking, innovative policies.
MR MOORE: Thank you. We also had a mention of the lucky groups that have been on CDF for some time, since 1981. It is quite clear that those lucky groups are now being questioned and questioned closely. They can be part of the group that can expect to see this Alliance Government drawing their funding to a close, or certainly shortening it.
The other interesting thing that came up was the comment by Mr Duby about the lemmings. It was very interesting. The closest thing to a lemming I have seen in recent times is the little furry one that is attached to the mirror on the Chief Minister's car.
MR KAINE (Chief Minister and Treasurer) (10.31), in reply: I must say that this debate has branded the Opposition permanently, as it has done on a number of occasions before, as the most conservative party in Australia. They do not want anything to change - "We cannot change the Community Development Fund; we cannot change the school system; we cannot change the hospital system; we cannot change the public health system". They are sunk into an iceberg of no change. This Government is not that kind of conservative government. This Government is one that is committed to beneficial change in the interests of this community, Mr Speaker. This change in connection with the Community Development Fund is just one part of the beneficial change in the interests of the community that this Government is putting into place.
Mr Berry: It is misrepresentation.
MR SPEAKER: Order, Mr Berry! We heard you the first time.
MR KAINE: He does not disturb me in the slightest, Mr Speaker. You can let him ramble on. People stopped listening to him earlier this evening. Somebody has already commented that they stacked the house with their cronies and they got sick of listening to him. They all got up and left, one by one. That is how much they convinced their own constituency. Nobody is listening to him, least of all me.
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