Page 4102 - Week 13 - Thursday, 10 November 1994
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Mr Wood: Bronwyn Bishop?
MR LAMONT: No, after Bronwyn. He is a tall bloke, short back and sides - Alexander Downer. He will shortly go the same way as his predecessors. What you have tried to do is to take the sort of "frightpack" - - -
Mr De Domenico: No; that was my 12-year-old son. He is a tall bloke.
Mr Berry: He is a tall bloke?
Mr De Domenico: He is five-foot-two. He is a big bloke.
MR LAMONT: I thank Mr De Domenico for agreeing with me on that matter.
Mr De Domenico: No; I am having a joke with Mr Berry.
MR LAMONT: What you have done is take that sort of rabid right-wing "frightpack" ideology and dress it up in the sort of namby-pamby, warm and cuddly, somewhat fuzzy rhetoric in The Things That Matter. I find it incredible that we have had here, in response to a well-thought-out, well-prepared and properly presented ministerial statement on the outcome of that conference, the sort of stuff that Mr De Domenico has gone on with. I am pleased that he took the opportunity to respond. I am pleased because it is the only time, inside the chamber, at least, that you have come even close to commenting on what your policy position is on anything. It is the first time that you have stood up in this chamber and tried - - -
Mr De Domenico: It is not, you know.
MR LAMONT: Yes, it is.
Mr De Domenico: No, it is not.
MR LAMONT: Yes, it is; and it is enlightening because, as I say, it is a continuation of your Fightback, "frightpack", Hewson-type, right-wing ideological position dressed up in your Alexander Downerisms. But people see through it. The slash and burn approach that you adopt in industrial relations comes through every time.
I would provide one little bit of advice to Mrs Carnell. It is very hard to give advice to Mrs Carnell, but I will provide her with one piece of advice in the lead-up to the next election. I am sorry, Chief Minister; I have to do it. If she is serious in running into the next election with a spokesperson on industrial relations, she should give the job to Mr Kaine. Give it to Mr Kaine because at least he can carry off the warm and fuzzy, touchy-feely sort of "We are all in this together" type of argument. Mr Kaine can at least carry that off. With the elder statesperson's type of approach to industrial relations that he has been able to exhibit, at least he can fool most of the people. Mr De Domenico, I am afraid - - -
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