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I think there is fear and terror out there in the community about the prospect of a Liberal-led government. It is the old story. Whenever you stick your hand in your pocket to get some money out, Dr Hewson's hand is going to be in there with yours, taking 15 per cent every time. That is what the community are in fear and loathing of. We heard also that troops are going to be called in. Mr De Domenico will call the troops in. He will have the troops in, if he cannot get his own way - - -
Mr De Domenico: Yes.
MR BERRY: He says it again - "Yes, we will call the troops in if we cannot get our own way. Call in the military". That is them on industrial relations.
Madam Speaker, getting back to the amendment, we are happy with it. It does not ruffle our feathers at all. As I have said, we accept the principles outlined in the motion. We do not see it as exclusive of every other use, and there is consideration going on about future uses of the Acton Peninsula. That is a matter for the Government and the community and others to look at when those sorts of recommendations are made. We do not have a result, so there is not much we can say about the issue without having first seen what they say. We have announced our position, and I think that is the most important one.
Again, there are some practical problems, as I pointed out in the course of debate, and we will just have to work our way around them. We cannot put the clinical medical school down on the Acton site. It is not going there. I make that position very clear. It will be based on the Woden Valley Hospital. So in that respect the motion cannot be adhered to.
Mr De Domenico: But you will put a hospice down there?
MR BERRY: We have announced that. It is inappropriate for the clinical medical school to go there. It will not go there. There are some problems with the motion in that respect; otherwise we accept the sentiment.
MR KAINE (Leader of the Opposition) (11.24): Madam Speaker, I and the Liberal Party will not support Ms Szuty's amendment because it would establish a fiction. The fiction is that the Labor Party has some commitment to doing what is entailed in this amendment. Indeed they do not, and nothing Mr Berry has said convinces me. If they have a commitment to this, where is the hospice? They have been talking for two years about putting a hospice down there. There is not even the first sign of turning the first sod. There is not even a sign up saying that this is where the hospice is going to be built. So where is the commitment? There is none. As far as I am concerned, QED: We will not support the amendment; we will not support the motion.
MR MOORE (11.25): Madam Speaker, I will support Ms Szuty's amendment and, following that, Mr Berry's amendment. As I said, it is the least bad situation that I can resolve. I put this motion for a specific purpose in protecting the Acton Peninsula, but in summarising I shall speak to that. At this point it is enough to say that Ms Szuty's amendment will have my support.
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