Page 1638 - Week 06 - Thursday, 13 August 1992
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Mr Kaine: But now they have seen your legislation.
MR LAMONT: Mr Kaine, you only need to go to the record, as I have done, to find out that what you have suggested this morning is definitely wrong. I also certainly hope that in preparing for any future debate on any economic matter your maths stand you in better stead than the furphy that you have put up this morning. You have deliberately attempted to filibuster on this issue and on this Bill. There is the opportunity; Mr Westende should take it and withdraw all of his amendments that have not already been dealt with. The simple fact is that you are repeating and repeating and repeating. Your arguments are repetitive; they lack judgment, in my view, and I believe that, in the interests of the proper business of this house, you should withdraw them.
MR DE DOMENICO (11.29): Madam Speaker, I was not going to say anything about this, but let us have a look at what Mr Lamont has said. Three years ago there was some great concern expressed by the then Minister, Mr Duby - he was not a member of the Liberal Party - and by certain members of the Liberal Party, too, about animal welfare. Hear, hear; so there was, Madam Speaker. But in 1989 no-one saw this Bill that we are debating. It is the Bill that the Liberal Party is concerned with, Madam Speaker; not the principle of the Bill, but the actual Bill itself. It has more holes in it than Swiss cheese.
Mr Moore stands there, wryly shrugs his shoulders and smiles. Mr Moore, you have no credibility whatsoever, either in this Assembly or in the community. You have made more moves than Boris Spassky over the past 48 hours. You know that you have. You do not know where you are. You talk about the Liberal Party and political expediency, Mr Moore. If you want to commit political harakiri and then vie for votes with the Labor Party, that is your problem, Mr Moore. You have no credibility as far as the community is concerned.
Madam Speaker, what are we here for today? We are spending a lot of time - - -
Mr Wood: To filibuster; that is what you are here for.
MR DE DOMENICO: Thank you, Mr Wood. Mr Wood uses the word "filibuster". I am glad that you used the word "filibuster", Mr Wood. Whilst the unemployment level in this town is 8.4 per cent, let me suggest to you, Madam Speaker - - -
Mr Wood: You are taking up the recommendations of that leaked report, aren't you? You are taking up that leaked report. Make a distance between you and us.
MADAM SPEAKER: Order!
MR DE DOMENICO: Could you please protect me from that person over the other side of this Assembly, Madam Speaker?
MADAM SPEAKER: Mr De Domenico, I think I have already. Order, please!
MR DE DOMENICO: Thank you. Whilst Mr Wood might sit there and yell out "filibuster", let me tell him some facts. It is a fact, Mr Wood, that 8.4 per cent of this community is unemployed. If we allow this Bill to go through in its present form, Mr Wood, there will be another 80 people, at least, at Parkwood Eggs who, in their opinion, may have to be unemployed. We are sitting here listening to this garbage from the other side of the house. We ought to be getting on with debating the real issues in this Assembly.
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