Page 1476 - Week 06 - Tuesday, 1 May 1990
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words, ignoring completely the fact that the additional Commonwealth expenditure will cease in the second budget year from now - not next year, but the year after - Ms Follett's mismanagement in this current year is the only cause of the $37m shortfall next year. (Extension of time granted)
The $37m shortfall that we are confronting now is absolutely and directly relatable to the budget mismanagement of the Opposition when it was in government. It simply could not produce a budget that could generate any sort of fiscal responsibility even for the second year, let alone the third.
I have set out a strategy for dealing with our financial problems. Simply to try to solve the problem in annual budgetary increments is not good enough. You cannot do it that way. I had hoped that the opposition would have made some constructive contributions during this debate, but it has sadly failed to do so, as it always has done when it comes down to the question of money.
The process of developing the 1990-1991 budget has now begun, and I sincerely invite members of the opposition to give me any constructive comments that they have on how the budget gap can be closed. If they are willing to come to me and make a constructive comment, which they have not done in this debate, I will be only too happy to attribute their valuable contributions to them when I bring down the budget later in the year.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
ADJOURNMENT
Motion (by Mr Collaery) proposed:
That the Assembly do now adjourn.
May Day
MR BERRY (9.55): I think it is important that today does not pass by without some mention of the significance of May Day. Whilst it has been mentioned in earlier speeches, I think it is appropriate that this day is mentioned in relation to the rights of workers and people generally in this country and in others, and that some of the important issues are remembered on this day. In other places, of course, this day is part of the ongoing struggle. I was in the car earlier this evening and I heard on ABC radio that the authorities in Korea had celebrated today by locking up union officials and getting stuck into striking workers out in the street with riot police. Something like 20,000 workers were out on strike at the Hyundai plant struggling
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