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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1998 Week 4 Hansard (25 June) . . Page.. 1081 ..

MR BERRY: The Government's efforts in caring go to their mates. In his opening remarks, Mr Moore drew attention to a newspaper article which referred to Mr David Hughes. Mr David Hughes said that, if anybody complains about the Government's approach, they ought to say how they are going to fund these things. Mr Moore, you have thrown yourself in with a Government that is prepared to build useless futsal slabs, to give $10.8m worth of taxation gifts to their corporate mates and to do a range of other ridiculous schemes. We would not do them - and that would help us to fund the sorts of promises that we made. They are the things that we would not do. If you think that those sorts of activities are okay and if you think that is the standard that a government should set, you can stay with it; but we will not do those sorts of things.

Mr Temporary Deputy Speaker, Mr Moore has also thrown himself in with the discredited $500,000 Feel the Power campaign. He thinks that is a great idea, too. Eighty-seven per cent of the people do not; so, he is out of step with a substantial part of the community there. Eighty-four per cent of Canberrans do not think it will give a positive image to Canberra. It was good to hear Mr Kaine's pointed question to the Minister for Urban Services, who seems hell-bent on covering up this discredited Feel the Power campaign.

Mr Moore, why did you not help those in this community who care for the disadvantaged - the social and community service workers - yesterday with their three-year budget? If you were part of a caring government, you would have helped them. And, if you had helped them yesterday, they would have a three-year contract in their hands today and they would be assured of their future and assured of their ability to provide care for the people in need of care. Is that a caring budget, Mr Moore? Is that a caring government that plays with elements of community services in a vindictive way? That is the way that this Government behaves. If that is the sort of government you want to belong to, Mr Moore, good on you, mate; but it is not the sort of government that we will have anything to do with, and it is not the sort of budget that we will have anything to do with either. Mr Temporary Deputy Speaker, what about the workers in community services who are covered by the SACS award?

Mr Moore: Yes, we will look after them, Wayne. Wayne, I am telling you now that we will look after them.

MR BERRY: Mr Moore interjects, "We will look after them". He is out of step with his Chief Minister, because she is saying, "We will look after some of them". So, I would suggest that you go along to the next Cabinet meeting and keep your ear to the ground, because your Chief Minister is saying, "We will look after some of them".

Mr Moore: I am talking about the ones that are there in Health. You ask me a question about it.

MR TEMPORARY DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order! Interjections are highly disorderly.

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