Page 1373 - Week 07 - Thursday, 24 August 1989
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MR BERRY: It is not a proper practice, Mr Humphries.
Mr Humphries: It is a legal practice. It is legal to minimise tax. We all minimise tax when we - - -
MR SPEAKER: Order! Mr Humphries, I will be forced to name you if you keep up these outbursts.
MR BERRY: It is not a proper employment practice for members of this Assembly to involve themselves in. Whilst it might be seen as proper for members of the Liberal Party and their constituents to minimise tax, it is not a proper practice for members of this Assembly.
Mr Speaker, I have enjoyed the brief time I have had on the floor here, aside from the interjections from the members of the Liberal Party, who seem very nervous, and rightly so, about being associated with people who minimise tax. It is very important, I think, that everybody is fully aware that they are prepared to support this outrageous motion and, it seems, the amendment that goes with it. The Government will not.
MS MAHER (4.27): I would just like to remind especially the members sitting across from me that during the election Mr Stevenson and the Abolish Self Government Coalition said that they would either resign if they got in or they would sit in here and do - - -
Mr Stevenson: On a point of order, Mr Speaker, I did not say that, and members of my party did not say that. We signed a - - -
MR SPEAKER: Mr Stevenson, you are debating the issue. That is not a point of order.
Mr Stevenson: It is not true.
MS MAHER: He also said that he would sit in the house and do nothing, and now you want to give him extra pay so he can sit here and do nothing. I just feel that, if you all pass this, I will be applying to the Chief Minister to have my vote for staff increased to $46,000, because at the moment I have only one ASO5. I do not have any extra staff. I have secretarial and typing facilities available if I need them, just the same as Mr Stevenson has. I agree with Mr Duby and I find it really hard to believe what you are doing.
MR MOORE (4.28): Mr Speaker, the Rally would like to state at the outset that we absolutely deplore the attack made by Mr Berry on private enterprise and also on consultants. I have had a note passed to me from a person who has from time to time worked as a consultant and freelance writer, who also takes complete umbrage at Mr Berry's allegation that that person is involved in tax minimisation or any other fraud on the Australian taxpaying public. That was the inference of the sort of thing that he said, and I
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