Page 4234 - Week 14 - Tuesday, 29 November 1994
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said to Mrs Carnell, "No; you have got it wrong again. What you should do is have a rethink about it". This afternoon we get an MPI and one question. Mrs Carnell, I know more about what happens in your party room than you do; but that is not surprising. The way that I hear it, you do not tell your members what you are doing. They have now adopted the same policy; they are not going to tell you any more. We will see what happens.
I suppose that I have enjoyed this afternoon the most of any afternoon since I have been a member of this Assembly. I reckon that this is the cheapest form of entertainment that I have ever become involved in. To see the five of you rip yourselves to pieces the way you have is the greatest entertainment that anybody on this side of the house could wish for.
MRS CARNELL (Leader of the Opposition) (5.56): This will be very quick, Madam Speaker. This whole process was a joke. There is no other way to look at it.
Mr Lamont: Mr Kaine, you are a joke.
MRS CARNELL: The issue is not that the report is a joke, but that the process was a joke. Mr Kaine totally agrees with this approach. Mr Kaine was one of the greatest critics - - -
Mr Lamont: Do you, Mr Kaine? That is not what he said today.
MRS CARNELL: Yes, it was. Mr Kaine was one of the greatest critics of a process that we have to go through when we are looking at budget performance and do not have any budget outcomes. We simply did not have any actuals for the end of the year. Mr Kaine was the greatest critic of that approach. As we know, we have here a process that we were going through to look at how this Government had actually - - -
Members interjected.
MRS CARNELL: I can yell for as long as I need to.
Members interjected.
MADAM SPEAKER: Order! Mrs Carnell has the floor.
MRS CARNELL: The process was a joke. To go down the track of trying to assess how this Government had performed, without any end of year actuals but with performance indicators, was a joke. As the committee said, that could not be measured. What do you measure? Then, to add insult to injury, we were ruled constantly to be asking hypothetical questions when we asked them about the budget figures, because we did not have the budget figures. No other parliament in this country - - -
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