Page 6030 - Week 18 - Thursday, 12 December 1991
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My next point, which will be very briefly stated as time is running out, is the matter illustrated by the Adelaide gambling casino. Please hear me. I do not doubt at all that, in its first year here and possibly into its second year, a gambling casino would be the new boy on the block; it would be fascinating; lots of people would go to it; lots of people would lose money; and it would do well. I think that is what happened in Adelaide. Three, four or five years down the track, though, what would be the situation? Would the quick fix become a disaster? Adelaide has already moved from not having gaming machines to having gaming machines, and it is now moving for the second time to cut back on its staff. That is in a city of close to a million people; we have only 300,000.
The next point is that we are putting in this quick fix, so it seems, when looming on our horizon is a Sydney casino or casinos. I wonder about the wisdom of that. My next point is that many of our young people - up to 300 to 400 of them - would be employed, not in long-term industrial growth of the best kind but at cellar-level rates of an overseas based hotel industry. Does anyone here want their sons, daughters, nieces or nephews to work in these circumstances?
MADAM TEMPORARY DEPUTY SPEAKER (Mrs Grassby): Your time has expired, Dr Kinloch.
DR KINLOCH: What is the future for those young people? May I just conclude, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker?
MADAM TEMPORARY DEPUTY SPEAKER: I am sorry; your time is up.
MR KAINE (Leader of the Opposition) (3.19): When I saw this matter of public importance on the agenda today I did not know whether to laugh or take it seriously.
Mr Collaery: If I were in your boots, I would have cried.
MR KAINE: There is no way that I am going to cry over something like this.
Dr Kinloch: I think you should take it seriously, Trevor.
MR KAINE: How can I take you seriously? You have just spent 15 minutes talking, and this matter of public importance talks about the Labor-Liberal coalition and constructive long-term economic planning. Apart from a sideswipe at the Liberal-Labor coalition, whatever that is, I did not hear you say anything more about that, and I did not hear you say very much about constructive long-term economic planning either.
Dr Kinloch: You were not listening, Trevor.
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