Page 6033 - Week 18 - Thursday, 12 December 1991
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On the other hand, he comes in here and tries to kick us all in the head and say that we are a bunch of dunderheads and that we do not know what we are talking about. You cannot have it both ways, Dr Kinloch.
Dr Kinloch: Potential and performance.
MR KAINE: If you would perform rather than just knocking us, we would all be better off. I should say a few words about the Liberal-Rally coalition, because that is another case where Dr Kinloch did not participate. He came to the joint party room and he participated in the debates and moved motions; but when the political flak started to fly Dr Kinloch ducked for cover and said, "I was not party to that. I do not want to be a part of that". He talks about political games being played by the Labor and Liberal parties. They are overshadowed only by the political games played by the members of the Residents Rally; that is the fact of it.
If the Residents Rally think political games playing is okay - as I said earlier, it is clear that there is an election campaign in the offing, and that is what this is about, so that they can throw a few rocks at the Liberal and Labor parties, the big machine parties - they ought to stop playing political games themselves. They ought to start behaving, if they really want to throw those kinds of rocks, if they really want to move out of their own glasshouse. Because of their performance over the last couple of years, they have a reputation of being "quite flaky" - and they are not my words.
Mr Collaery: Of bringing in 70 Bills. How many Bills have you brought in?
MR KAINE: You brought in three in the last couple of days, knowing full well that there was no likelihood of their being debated. You hoodwinked certain people out there into believing that you were going to debate them, and they are now quite angry with you, I can tell you.
I informed those people that you brought them in knowing full well that there was no way that they could be debated and that you had led them up the garden path by saying that you were going to fix the payroll tax, the land tax and all those other things. There are some very disgruntled people out there, Mr Collaery, because you hoodwinked them. So, do not talk to me about political game playing. Dr Kinloch ought to have a look at the political game playing. Perhaps he does not see it; perhaps he sits there with his eyes shut, just as he does here, and he does not see the games that you and Norm Jensen are playing. As I said, do not throw rocks when you live in glasshouses.
Dr Kinloch did discuss the gambling casino, and he talked about the inappropriateness of the short-term fix. I never said that the casino was a solution to anything. I never put it forward as a short-term fix for our economic woes.
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