Page 2632 - Week 09 - Wednesday, 24 August 1994
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MR LAMONT: But you have supported the contract.
Mrs Carnell: I said that I supported negotiations.
MR LAMONT: Yes, you have. You have been on the radio repeatedly exhorting me to go with New South Wales. You, Mrs Carnell, have been exhorting me repeatedly to sell the TAB to New South Wales, because that is the effect of the signing of any contract with New South Wales. That is what your grubby little game has been all about - to put into place your ideology, the same ideology that in the last week has seen you exhorting the Minister for Health to contract out the whole of the health system, to sell it off to New South Wales. What is next, Mrs Carnell? We will have the education system contracted out to New South Wales. Mrs Carnell, you might convince Mr Downy to do a bit of a favour and get you out of the poo that you got yourself in yesterday, but it simply does not wash.
MADAM SPEAKER: Order! Mr Lamont, your time has expired.
Mr Lamont: By the way, I am prepared to name the person who told me that you phoned the New South Wales Minister. Do you insist that I do so?
Mrs Carnell: No; but I do not mind.
MADAM SPEAKER: Order! Your time is up.
Mr Lamont: Do you insist that I do so?
MADAM SPEAKER: Order!
Mr De Domenico: Mrs Carnell rang Mr Downy in my presence after the event, Mr Lamont.
Mr Lamont: Why did you tell me at 6.30 on Friday night that you had nothing to do with Mrs Carnell phoning the New South Wales Minister's office?
Mr De Domenico: No, no, Mr Lamont - - -
MADAM SPEAKER: Order! Members from both sides will come to order.
MR HUMPHRIES (4.25): Madam Speaker, I would have thought, after that little performance by the Deputy Chief Minister, that we would need only to quote the phrase "Mr Lamont's arrogance" to see that it was true. Merely observing Mr Lamont after that little performance is all that you need to satisfy yourself of the statement that he is a very arrogant person when it comes to looking at these issues. It takes a special kind of arrogance, Madam Speaker, for him to stare down his critics, or to try to stare down his critics, in the face of a decision to flush something like $4m in taxpayers' money down the toilet because of his own Government's incompetence. There simply is no other way of describing the debacle - I will not say the other word - the muck-up that this entire affair - - -
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