Page 1062 - Week 04 - Wednesday, 20 March 1991
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MR BERRY: He has admitted that there are 60 per cent more people - - -
Mr Humphries: What a lot of garbage.
MR BERRY: He says that he has not admitted that. Well, he has admitted that there has been a blow-out of 60 per cent - - -
Mr Humphries: Mr Speaker, I am gratified to hear Mr Berry's familiar speech yet again, in case any of us had forgotten what he said yesterday, or the day before, or the day before that. This is not relevant to food legislation or to this particular Bill.
MR SPEAKER: I uphold your objection, Mr Humphries. Mr Berry, please get closer to the debate.
Mr Connolly: People who eat rancid food end up in hospital, if there is a bed.
MR BERRY: As Mr Connolly says, people who eat rancid and rotting food might end up in hospital. They would have difficulty in the Australian Capital Territory; they might not be able to get a bed and they might not get transport to go to the hospital because of the inactivity of this Minister, the same sort of inactivity that we are now witnessing in the preparation of modern legislation to deal with food.
It is up to the Government to produce the goods. It has not been able to do that. As I have said previously, Mr Speaker, all it can do is whinge and complain about the Labor Opposition's preparedness to put its head down and prepare this legislation to provide better services and better protection for the people of the Territory. When Mr Humphries comes forward and produces the goods, that is the day he will get applause; but not before. He has not done it so far. He has been slow off the mark on almost every issue.
All he has been able to deliver to this Assembly is expressions of confidence; no more than that - words cobbled together to confuse and mislead the electorate about the service that this Government has failed to provide.
Mr Humphries: That is high praise from the expert.
MR BERRY: This so-called wordsmith opposite again tries to mislead the community into the belief that something is happening in government or is about to happen in government very shortly, or perhaps some time this year.
Mr Humphries: Have you anything at all to say about the food Bill, Wayne? I would like to hear it if you do.
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