Page 4966 - Week 17 - Tuesday, 11 December 1990
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MR BERRY: Who is running this show, the Chief Minister or the Speaker?
MR SPEAKER: Order, Mr Berry! Please proceed.
Mr Kaine: Well, you certainly are not.
MR BERRY: I do not pretend to. The fact of the matter is that the Government is sensitive on this issue of the delivery of community services. It has made no outstanding commitment. They still do not seem to understand. As I have said twice before in this debate, the measure of their commitment to the delivery of community services can be found in health and education.
We also need to look further at the Government's approach to industrial relations and the dominance of the conservatives in the Government. For example, will the Government now move to enact essential services legislation for those workers who work in these industries that might be described as essential? Bill Stefaniak certainly believes that they will. That is what he promised the people of Canberra when they moved towards an election. He said that there would be essential services legislation. I expect that the rest of the Liberal Ministers support Mr Stefaniak as well. Is that the sort of philosophy that is going to creep through into the - - -
Mr Humphries: Once again, it is very edifying to hear about industrial relations and essential services legislation, but we are talking tonight about the Territory Owned Corporations Bill.
MR SPEAKER: That is a valid point, Mr Humphries. The issue before us is the Territory Owned Corporations Bill.
MR BERRY: Indeed, it is; and the people who work in those Territory owned corporations and, of course, the industrial relations policies of any government which says that it will move towards the management of those corporations. I know that the Liberal people opposite are very sensitive about that - - -
Mr Kaine: We are not sensitive at all.
MR BERRY: Why are you twitching and jumping up all the time?
MR SPEAKER: Order, Mr Berry! Please get on with it!
Mr Kaine: Because you keep telling lies.
MR BERRY: I heard that. It is your turn now, Mr Speaker. I would like the Chief Minister to withdraw his - - -
MR SPEAKER: Yes.
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