Page 5257 - Week 17 - Thursday, 13 December 1990
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MR BERRY: It did; I was deeply hurt. Mr Speaker, the fact of the matter is that we have to confront this issue. We have to put the pressure on the Minister; we also have to put the pressure on the Residents Rally party, because that is a party which claims to have emerged from the community and one would expect, therefore, that its members would have some compassion for ordinary members of the community who might use our public hospital system. It could be expected, on the one hand, that the Liberals would not support ordinary members of the community. They would be rather more concerned about those of us who can afford expensive private hospital services. But the Residents Rally party ought to be ashamed of itself for not arguing for the retention of these very important clauses.
Bernard Collaery is pretending that he cannot hear me. No wonder! I would be ashamed as well if I claimed that I had come from a community party, such as he does, yet he ignores the pleas of a real community party to ensure that these quality assurance activities and the requirement for people to - - -
Mr Kaine: How would you know what a real community party stands for?
MR BERRY: Mr Kaine asks me how I would know what a community party - - -
Mr Kaine: You do not belong to one, so you could not possibly know.
MR BERRY: Mr Kaine could not even recognise one.
MR SPEAKER: Order!
MR BERRY: It is very nice to see that Mr Kaine is now defending the Residents Rally. I would be concerned if I were you, Mr Collaery. If I had Mr Kaine defending me, I would know that I was in trouble.
Mr Duby: What do you know about the working class? You are a fireman.
Mr Kaine: You would not know what a member of the working class looked like.
MR BERRY: I notice that people are slinging off about the working class and all that sort of thing. There is no compassion amongst this lot opposite for the working classes, otherwise this lot opposite would be standing up for the requirement for practitioners within the hospital system to participate in reasonable quality assurance activities. They are not doing it because they do not care. They do not care about the people of Canberra; they do not care about the community. They have demonstrated that on a number of occasions in the past. Norm Jensen, the proposed member for wherever it is down south, or in that general direction; that is, in his view - will not
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