Page 2088 - Week 07 - Thursday, 16 June 1994
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government and took over that budget. He used it for the first year before they brought down their own budget. What did the Trevor Kaine, Gary Humphries, Alliance Government budget do?
Mr Humphries: Restructured.
MR MOORE: Basically, it did just a little bit of the same, a bit of nip and tuck, with the exception of the Royal Canberra Hospital, which was done on ideological grounds.
Mr Humphries: And the school closures.
MR MOORE: Then there was the attempt to close schools. But there was no attempt to sit down and decide their priorities. They did not sit down and say, "What are our business priorities about? In social justice, is welfare our priority? Where are our priorities? How will we shift money around to suit ourselves, or will we be dictated to by what the bureaucracy has provided for us since long before self-government and just do the nip and tuck?". I am afraid that, for the fifth year in a row, we have had that kind of approach. The only alternative presented came from Mrs Carnell, and what she presented to us is dry, conservative economics, primarily based on greed and looking after your own. Hence the $5m to business and to small business.
MR DE DOMENICO (4.17): Mr Deputy Speaker, it was interesting to listen to Mr Moore. Mr Moore and Ms Szuty are two of the three most privileged people in this place because they can stand up and knock both the Government and the Opposition, knowing that they will never be in either position during their lives. Mr Moore stands up here and talks about the Liberal Party showing preference for its business mates and the Labor Party showing preference for somebody else, but he has never stood up here and told us whom he shows preference for. After what he said about the rating system, it is certainly not the area of Reid where he lives. If Mr Moore had read the budget papers and the words of the Chief Minister properly, he would know that even in the area where he lives, in Reid, there is a projected increase in rates of 19.8 per cent. Before Mr Moore stands in his place and starts to criticise an initiative that the Liberal Party at least has enough guts to put forward, he should come up with his alternative. Then he can get up and talk about ours.
Ms Follett: Where is it? It is a secret.
MR DE DOMENICO: Ms Follett keeps interjecting, "Where is it?". She should write to Mrs Carnell and perhaps we will give her a copy. That is the sort of response we always get from Ms Follett.
Ms Follett: I gave her mine.
MR DE DOMENICO: If you want one, go up and get one. I am sure that you will be pleasantly surprised.
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