Page 6031 - Week 18 - Thursday, 12 December 1991
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MR KAINE: I am about to tell you that you do not listen. I listened to you, so I hope that you will do the same for me. I find it rather curious that two groups of people from opposite political parties, one of which has been in government while the other has been in opposition and vice versa, could be said to be in any sort of a coalition. I do not recall too many times when we have been all that friendly, to be honest with you.
Mr Duby: That is just like our coalition, Trevor.
MR KAINE: I am going to come to that in a minute, because I am not too sure that Dr Kinloch knows what a coalition is. I would just ask him a very serious question: Knowing what the philosophy of the Liberal Party is, how could he say that it would get into coalition with a party, one of whose policy statements is that it will encourage the establishment and development of viable public enterprises using nationalisation where appropriate? They can have their policies; they are entitled to that. But does Dr Kinloch really tell me that I am going to get into coalition with a party that has that sort of policy? He has to be joking.
Mr Berry: We would not want you, Trevor.
MR KAINE: Pardon?
Mr Berry: You would be nothing but trouble.
MR KAINE: You never know; you might find that I am closer to you philosophically on some matters - not that one - than other people in this place. The proposition that there is a Labor-Liberal coalition is quite ludicrous. I would have to say that clearly there is an election in the air, so the Residents Rally are now trying to resurrect the stance that they started off with, namely, "We are the anti-party-machine party". They self-destructed over the last year or so because they had the strongest party machine of any party in Canberra; now they are trying to resurrect it. There is no doubt that the reason for this is that there is an election in the air.
Dr Kinloch talks about our "failure to provide for constructive long-term economic planning for the ACT". I am sure that the Chief Minister will speak for herself and for the Labor Party. Dr Kinloch said that I was not listening. He has not been listening for three years, if he really believes that; but, if he does not believe it, why does he say it? I have here a stack of documents that go back to the Liberal Party's budget strategy of 1988, which talks about long-term strategies - long-term strategies for financial management, long-term strategies for restructuring the public service and long-term strategies for restructuring the private sector.
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