Page 3075 - Week 11 - Tuesday, 10 September 1991
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MRS GRASSBY (4.48): I do not want to take up a lot of the house's time - - -
Mr Jensen: Mr Speaker, I thought the deputy chair - - -
Mr Connolly: You spent 10 minutes attacking Mrs Grassby.
MR SPEAKER: Order!
Mr Jensen: I thought the normal procedure was for the deputy chair to be followed by the third member. But go on, Ellnor; ladies first.
MRS GRASSBY: Let him have it.
MR SPEAKER: Order, members! Who wishes to stand?
Mr Moore: Mrs Grassby has deferred to Mr Jensen.
Mr Kaine: Mrs Grassby has the floor.
MRS GRASSBY: Mr Speaker, I once read a saying that, if you let an accountant look after your business, either he will end up owning it or you will end up going broke. I do not want to say that Mr Kaine would do that, but I find the speech he just made rather incredible. I did say exactly all that he has said; you will find it in the back of the report, so I will stand by what I said. I do believe that the Liberal Party has a bankcard mentality - borrow now and pay later. This is the sort of thing that has happened in many governments around Australia.
Ms Follett: They cannot take it, Ellnor.
MRS GRASSBY: No, that is true. Never mind, Rosemary; I can handle it.
Mr Jensen: I am still here, Ellnor.
MRS GRASSBY: You will always be here, Mr Jensen - until we throw you out.
Mr Connolly: Only until February.
MRS GRASSBY: Only until February.
Mr Jensen: Thank you for your vote of confidence.
MRS GRASSBY: I said "until we throw you out"; that has to be the last bit, remember.
The Liberal Party expects us to go into a large borrowing program, to put the people of this city into enormous debt so that they spend the rest of their life paying it off. As I said, they have a bankcard mentality - using plastic. This Government does not intend to do this. Ms Follett is a very responsible Treasurer. She understands the balancing of the books. She understands that at this time
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