Page 4204 - Week 14 - Tuesday, 29 November 1994
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She lives in Red Hill, sometimes, when she is not in Sydney, because that is where her kids and her husband are. What would Mrs Kelly know about or care about the people of the Tuggeranong Valley? The answer is zilch, zip. Mrs Kelly is more concerned about what she is going to do after she leaves politics. Of course, she spoke to Mr Wood, and she said, "Hey, Bill" - wink, nod, wink, nod - "what can we do for these people?". That is what Mrs Kelly is interested in.
Mr Wood: You shut up a moment ago. Who spoke to you?
MR DE DOMENICO: Mrs Kelly is interested in Mrs Kelly, and you know that as well as I do. Let us forget about Mrs Kelly. I am glad that the Chief Minister put it on the record and said to this Assembly that it will not be Mrs Kelly who makes the decision. Thank God for that. Thank God that it will not be Mrs Kelly. She probably will not even be living here. She will be in Sydney with her kids.
Mr Berry: It will be a Labor government. That is who will be making the decision.
MR DE DOMENICO: Mr Berry, I am glad that you interjected. Mr Berry, if you go ahead, if you even dare attempt to do this, I suggest that if you want an issue that will really make the community in Tuggeranong vote against Labor government this is it. If we have made you squirm like you have squirmed and have made you come out with all this rubbish today, we have done our job. If you really are concerned about all of this, you will support the motion that Mrs Carnell is to move shortly. If you do not do that, it means that you are not fair dinkum.
Mr Berry made a lot of noise about the pharmacy situation. Mr Berry, as you probably are aware, I was one of the lobbyists who were working for the Pharmacy Guild at the time. Let me tell you what the truth was, Mr Berry. Let me tell you the reality. The reality was that your Federal colleagues, with a gun to the heads of the pharmacists, said, "Unless you die alone we will shoot you". What did Mrs Carnell and the Pharmacy Guild do? They went in there to bat for their members, just like one would expect Mr Berry to go in to bat for his fireman members. What did Mrs Carnell and the Pharmacy Guild do? They negotiated an appropriate compensation package for the pharmacists.
Mr Berry: What sort of principles do you have?
MR DE DOMENICO: I invite you, Mr Berry, and your Government, to negotiate an appropriate compensation package, should any small businesses in the Tuggeranong Valley go broke because of Mr Wood's decision. I invite you to negotiate an appropriate compensation package so that every small business in Canberra will be compensated when they close down.
Mr Kaine: And the service station operators too.
MR DE DOMENICO: The committee that Mr Kaine is a member of recommended that you should have done that for those small business service stations that this Minister here in front of me, Madam Speaker, has shut down, and continues to shut down. If you are really fair dinkum about the Pharmacy Guild situation, Mr Berry, you will stand up
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