Page 248 - Week 02 - Tuesday, 12 May 1992
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MR DE DOMENICO: All right. We may talk about that on 5 June.
Mr Cornwell: To be continued.
MR DE DOMENICO: To be continued. Nor did we talk about the fact, as I mentioned before, that the best way to fix the micro-economic reform thing is that if a bus driver screams and goes on strike the best way to fix it is to give him a pay rise. Take him to the Industrial Relations Commission and give him a pay rise. That will keep him quiet for a while, until he wants another one. Nothing was said about the fact that we have 1,100 of our young people unemployed. Nothing was said about what Mr Carmichael said in his report about a youth wage, for example. That is not important enough; it is nothing to be consulted about. We have all these words right through the speech. Let me continue. Ms Follett says:
Heads of government agreed to the need to achieve a major increase in the level of vocational education and training opportunities across Australia ...
That is a wonderful thing that we need to achieve, but how are we going to achieve it? They did not talk about that, though. They talked about a need to achieve it, but not about how they are going to achieve it. She went on:
... particularly in order to equip our young people with appropriate skills and qualifications.
For what? To sit in an unemployment queue? So, we are going to have magnificently educated unemployed people. They will have no jobs to go to, mind you; but they will be well qualified and well educated. She continued:
We resolved to settle, as a matter of urgency, the responsibilities of governments for the funding and resourcing of vocational education and training.
If it was so urgent, Madam Speaker, why put it off till 5 June? The current unemployed will probably still be unemployed by then, as they were last month and the month before.
Mr Lamont: Because Nick Greiner wanted it put off. There will be a new Premier in New South Wales by then.
Mr Humphries: You wish. It will not be Bob Carr; that is for sure.
MR DE DOMENICO: Bob who?
Mr Humphries: Bob Carr.
MR DE DOMENICO: In the area of Aboriginal affairs they endorsed various things, which was quite admirable.
Mr Kaine: They endorsed a report.
MR DE DOMENICO: They endorsed a report of the Aboriginal Affairs Council on achieving greater coordination. So, we have all these words. We have "consultation", "urgency", "achieving major increases in levels", "endorsing" and all sorts of things. Nothing was done, though. As I said, nothing from nothing
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