Page 4208 - Week 14 - Tuesday, 29 November 1994
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MR KAINE (4.22): Madam Speaker, having listened to and participated in the debate that has just been concluded, I am quite astonished that Mr Berry can get to his feet and take the position that he has taken. He has indicated in his few words that the Government intends to go through a comprehensive process, and that is all that this motion seeks; yet he will deny the people of Tuggeranong the right to have their motion debated.
Mr Berry: They are not the people of Tuggeranong. They are just a bunch of Liberals.
MR KAINE: Mrs Carnell already has made the point that this motion did not come from the Liberal Party; it came from a public meeting, held with a very large number of Tuggeranong residents present.
Mr Wood: I did not get an invitation. Nobody asked me.
MR KAINE: I am glad that Mr Wood said that about asking him. Not one of the people sitting over there was at that public meeting last night.
Mr Wood: I did not know about it. You kept it secret.
MR KAINE: There was no secret public meeting.
Mr Humphries: There were hundreds of people there.
Mr De Domenico: Every single shopping centre had invitations, Mr Wood. It shows that you do not know what is going on in your supposed electorate.
MADAM SPEAKER: Order! Would both sides come to order. I cannot hear Mr Kaine.
MR KAINE: Thank you, Madam Speaker. I would like to be heard. It was convened by the Small Business Council. They sent their brochures far and wide. That merely indicates to me that the members opposite were not interested. There was a public meeting attended by a very large number of Tuggeranong residents and they put up this motion. They sought that this motion be debated by this house. If you are not going to do it, whom are you listening to? Whose interests are you representing in this place, if not the interests of the residents of Tuggeranong? The answer seems to be pretty clear. It is the interests of somebody else. That ought to be on the record. The people in Tuggeranong need to know that the Labor members of this Assembly are not interested in even permitting debate of the motion that they asked to have put forward. I think that speaks volumes about the interest of the Labor Party in the people of the Tuggeranong Valley. I think the people of the Tuggeranong Valley will hear that message loud and clear if the Labor members decline to allow this debate to take place.
Mr Berry: I am going to move the closure, Bill.
MADAM SPEAKER: This debate lasts only until 4.31 pm anyway, Mr Berry.
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