Page 771 - Week 03 - Thursday, 22 March 1990
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That the Assembly do now adjourn.
Mr Collaery: Mr Speaker, I require that the question be put forthwith without debate.
Question resolved in the negative.
DEPUTY CHIEF MINISTER
Motion of Censure
Debate resumed.
MR KAINE: Despite that exchange of correspondence, on 2 March Mrs Grassby writes again and says that her letter has brought an amazing response from Mr Collaery and his answer is not good enough. How equivocal is equivocal and why is his letter amazing? This is a gross distortion because she then goes on and says, and continues to say, that the Government is selling these flats. This is reprehensible behaviour that deserves to be condemned.
Finally, we get down to the Tourist Bureau where Mr Whalan, the self-righteous Mr Whalan, writes to every employee of the Tourist Bureau and says, "The Kaine Government is going to fire you all". This is totally untrue, totally ill-founded and has absolutely no truth to it. It is an attempt to destabilise public servants who, of course, are now worried about their jobs.
What is the pattern behind all this, Mr Speaker? The pattern is that this motley lot across the road here have set about creating a scenario with no facts and a total distortion of the truth. They have caused people out there to become concerned about their jobs, about their livelihood, about their home; they have caused that discontent and concern then they have come back and said to the Government, "Justify yourself. And if you don't, you are reprehensible. You wilfully and deliberately mislead".
Now who is wilfully and deliberately misleading? The motley lot of cream puffs on that side of the house are the ones who are wilfully and deliberately misleading.
Ms Follett: On a point of order, Mr Speaker; I regard cream puffs as an unparliamentary expression.
MR SPEAKER: Objection overruled. Please proceed, Mr Kaine.
MR KAINE: They are very sensitive, are they not, Mr Speaker? Very sensitive indeed when they are on the receiving end of the attack. I withdraw it, but they really are anyway. So, Mr Speaker, we have this absolutely reprehensible behaviour for which members of the Assembly deserve to be condemned and they will be when this debate is over.
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