Page 758 - Week 03 - Tuesday, 12 March 1991
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Mr Deputy Speaker, there were some other comments made by Mr Moore and Mr Connolly - opportunistic comments about the Rally. The Rally committed itself to the Royal Canberra Hospital if it won government. It did not win government, and you all know that. Let me quote from Hansard of 15 November 1989. On page 2591 Mrs Grassby said:
We have inherited a run-down, out-of-date hospital -
this is Royal Canberra Hospital -
that should have been pulled down.
I will read it into the record again. Mrs Grassby said:
We have inherited a run-down, out-of-date hospital that should have been pulled down.
Mr Deputy Speaker, on the same day, at page 2592, she said:
As I said -
So, really, this was a premeditated thing. They sit in caucus a lot. They do not do much, but they do do that, Mr Deputy Speaker. They have to hold hands constantly. She said:
As I said, we have inherited a run-down, badly built hospital. Anybody else would have said, "That's it. Let's put the bulldozer through it".
We have just heard comments across the road about us bulldozing the health system. What shallow hypocrisy! What a pathetic Opposition! No wonder the rest of us who speak to Federal Ministers and speak to Federal politicians constantly hear this refrain, "My God, that Labor Opposition you have".
We have heard a lot of humbug today from a Labor Opposition that still lives in the faint hope that by sitting back and doing nothing, by contributing nothing useful in debate or in opposition, government will be handed back to them on a platter. They are in for a heck of a shock, Mr Deputy Speaker. They are in for an awful shock. Their performance is woeful. They have put up a censure motion which has delayed a vital piece of legislation that we are desperate to get going on.
Mr Connolly: Yes, and the press are flocking to listen to Mr Collaery's speech.
MR COLLAERY: There was an audience here, Mr Deputy Speaker, to see the normal process of government and to see a Weapons Bill introduced and the commencement of a debate. That has not occurred because of this fatuous, useless, unmeritorious censure motion against my colleague Mr Humphries, who has my full confidence and support.
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