Page 3828 - Week 14 - Thursday, 10 December 1992
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Here we have a very similar principle. Members on this side of the house and the majority of working men and women in Australia say that what Jeff Kennett has done in Victoria, modelled on the policy endorsed unanimously by the people who sit on that side of the house, is wrong. It is simply wrong, Mr Deputy Speaker. What we should be doing and should be saying is exactly what occurred on 1 December this year.
Mr De Domenico: It was 30 November.
MR LAMONT: On 30 November. Working men and women in Australia must have the opportunity to protest at the policies that each of the six members who call themselves the Liberal Opposition endorse unanimously. Mr Humphries, do you endorse the GST and the "frightpack"?
Mr Humphries: Of course.
MR LAMONT: Which version? I presume that Mr Westende does. I know, for certain, that Mr Kaine does. So, here we have six representatives in this Assembly who endorse entirely Jeff Kennett's policies in Victoria. They endorse unanimously Jeff Kennett's propositions in Victoria.
Mr Deputy Speaker, aside from some of your colleagues trying to weasel out of their stated support for the policies of Jeff Kennett and Dr Hewson, these people are frightened. They are frightened because they too know that a majority of Australians support the conciliation and arbitration process as outlined in our Constitution and as put in place since Federation, or since 1904.
Mr De Domenico: You do not support that, though; you support strikes.
MR LAMONT: Mr De Domenico, once again yapping from the sidelines, has said that I support strikes. I support the right to strike, unequivocally. But that is not what Dr Hewson supports.
Mr De Domenico: Yes, it is.
MR LAMONT: No, it is not. I am sorry; honest John does, but he is in opposition at the moment.
Mr De Domenico: So does Dr Hewson.
MR LAMONT: But he is in opposition at the moment too, and he may have the same philosophy in opposition that Mr Humphries has.
Mr Berry: Mr Kennett was honest in opposition too.
MR LAMONT: Mr Kennett was honest in opposition. So, this is it, Mr Deputy Speaker. We have Yap Yap over here, in the background, trying to suggest that what the people of Australia and the people in the ACT should put up with, and what they will deliver, at the least, is exactly the same as what is happening in Victoria. Mr De Domenico interjected earlier on, saying, "Yes, we will reintroduce the silver service".
Mr De Domenico: Did I say that?
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