Page 1910 - Week 07 - Thursday, 20 August 1992
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will be spent. You would know that. When the final details are all worked out, you will be among the first to know. When you are told, you will be informed of how we intend to continue with our management of the public hospital system, with an emphasis on the public hospital system. We are not committed as you are.
It is amazing that Mrs Carnell immediately picks up on the money that might be available for the private sector. She does not want to talk about all the other good things that are in the Federal budget. Yesterday, when the MPI was on, they all bolted and left the room. The whole lot of them walked out; they did not want to hear all the good things about the Federal budget.
Mr Kaine: You did not give me any option, Minister. You did not give me any option but to bolt.
MR BERRY: Mr Kaine says that I did not leave him any option. He did not leave himself any option. He will not play by the rules and he gets a little bit tetchy when he gets turfed out.
The details of implementation of the Federal Government's strategies will be worked out between my officers and their officers in the near future and, of course, the implementation will be in accordance with the strategies which have been developed by the Federal Government. I have to say - - -
Mrs Carnell: It has nothing to do with them. It is to do with whether you are going to take advantage of them.
MR BERRY: The details of how I will take advantage of it will be made available to you in due course.
Land Tax
MR MOORE: Madam Speaker, my question is directed to the Leader of the Opposition, Trevor Kaine, in accordance with standing order 116, as the member who is in charge of the Rates and Land Tax (Amendment) Bill. Mr Kaine, I am sure you are aware that only about 4 per cent of tax that is levied is land tax. I wonder why it is that you and the Liberal Party focus your concern on land tax that is going to be incurred by fixed income earners. I am wondering about your attention to the other 96 per cent of taxes. Why not complain about those taxes? Is it because land tax is the only tax homeowners share exclusively with the rich, whereas the other 96 per cent they share largely with the poor?
MADAM SPEAKER: Mr Kaine, I believe that the question is not in order. Let me check my advice, but I do believe that the question is not in order.
MR KAINE: I would like to answer it. I will answer it anyway, Madam Speaker, in the context of the debate on my Bill, which Mr Moore will have an opportunity to debate in three weeks' time. His allusion to the rich demonstrates where he is coming from: Anybody who has 10c more than he has is a beneficiary of an unfair distribution of wealth.
MADAM SPEAKER: Mr Kaine, I am sorry; it would be out of order if you were to anticipate any of the material to be contained in that Bill. If you would like to answer without doing that, you may; otherwise the question anticipates debate.
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