Page 6032 - Week 18 - Thursday, 12 December 1991
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These were not quick fixes; they were stated policies that intended to carry the Liberal Party through three to five years, not just one year. They are just as relevant today as they were in 1988. And it goes on from there. I can produce document after document, speeches in this house time after time, and speeches to organisations. I have spoken to two different groups of accountants over the months. I have spoken to the Rotary Club. All of my speeches are matters of public record, and in every one of them I have emphasised long-term planning, long-term strategies, because we are in an economic hole that we can get out of only by long-term planning.
So, when Dr Kinloch accuses people of not listening, it is a case of living in glasshouses. He obviously has not listened to a word that I have said; he has not read anything; he clearly has not been anywhere where any of these statements have been made. I have to say one thing about Dr Kinloch: He is a great non-attender. I have never seen him at any significant function that I have been to in the last three years. So, if he is not attending, how can he know what goes on?
Mr Collaery: Well, you do not go to church, obviously.
MR KAINE: I do not go to his church; but he is not going to hear too many policy statements in his church, that is for sure. Obviously, when he is here, he must nod off to sleep more often than he stays awake, because he does not listen to what is going on here either. The Liberal Party's commitment to long-term planning is a matter of public record, and it has been repeated and repeated. So, I do not know how he can stand up in this place and say that we have not provided for constructive long-term economic planning. I can only assume that Dr Kinloch does not know what long-term economic planning is, and I think that is probably a fair statement of fact.
Dr Kinloch: I have just given you many examples.
MR KAINE: If you think the whole world rotates about the university, I have news for you. There are a lot of things going on out there which have nothing to do with the university.
It is interesting that Dr Kinloch chose today to come in and attack everybody. I hark back to the no-confidence motion in Kaine and his minority government. Dr Kinloch was very complimentary. As is customary, even though he was voting one way, he spoke the other. As I said in debates yesterday, they are great at sitting on the fence, and you never know which side they are going to fall off on. About me, Dr Kinloch said:
[He] has a good grasp of the principles of accounting and economic management. In that area, he is professionally better qualified than other members of the Assembly. He also has excellent experience ... He performs his public duties well.
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