Page 3641 - Week 12 - Thursday, 13 October 1994
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MR WOOD: I say "Liberals". I am not sure whether it is Liberal policy or whether it is Kate Carnell's Bronwyn Bishop-style plagiarised policy, the Carnell policy imposed on the Liberals. When I referred to an article in her name by Chris Uhlmann in the Canberra Times yesterday, I should have mentioned one significant part of it. The article said:
... the ideas must be okay if Kate thinks they're okay. "The Liberal Party believes and I do, too ..."
It is not Liberal policy until Kate says that it is okay. I think there is a lot of pre-empting of policy discussion by the Liberal leader. It seems to me that this group over here, who talk repeatedly about consultation, do not allow consultation in their own ranks, because the Liberal leader gazumps them all the time. She is the one who decides.
Going back to the question of sponsorship, what the Liberal leader has said about sponsorship is entirely consistent with her other notions of cutthroat competition in our schools. One of the things that article said was that she disagreed with what I had done in respect of controls on that sponsorship. She seems to suggest that there should not be controls.
Mrs Carnell: No, I did not. I agreed.
MR WOOD: But you do not want the measure of controls.
Mr Humphries: I raise a point of order, Madam Speaker. The question asked of Mr Wood was about his Government's view about corporate sponsorship. He has now been talking at some length about Mrs Carnell's views about corporate sponsorship. I would ask that he stick to the subject of the question.
MADAM SPEAKER: Order!
MR WOOD: Madam Speaker, Mr Humphries is going to jump up every minute of the day, I think. He had better stay on his feet. Mrs Carnell said that boards should be able to supplement their revenue by other measures such as corporate sponsorship.
Mr Humphries: I take a point of order, Madam Speaker. It was a serious point of order. He was asked about Government policy.
MADAM SPEAKER: I doubt whether it was a serious point of order, Mr Humphries. This is a parliament, for heaven's sake. The Minister will answer the question. Mr Wood, continue.
MR WOOD: He does not want to know about it.
Mr Humphries: I had not imagined that it was a sauna bath, Madam Speaker. There is a standing order - - -
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