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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1999 Week 5 Hansard (6 May) . . Page.. 1582 ..

MR MOORE (continuing):

When she stood up to speak it was with her normal paternalistic, patronising approach - that she gets everything right and everybody else has to learn how to do things with process. If she had looked at the process with even half an attempt to be fair she would have seen that Mr Humphries had passed this issue over to the Law Society for doing at arm's length from him. He had had a professional and sensible approach, Mr Speaker, and he was subjected to incredible personal attacks.

Mr Speaker, what we see from that side of the house is what psychologists would refer to as projection. They are projecting their own situation and their own personalities onto this side of the house. We on this side of the house have thought through what we want to do. We have set the agenda in terms of where we are going with the clever, caring capital. In health - and I take some pride in this - we have set a direction through "Setting the Agenda" in terms of where we are going. Each of the Ministers has done so within the government context. We know where we are going. We are driving for it. We are doing it in a responsible way, both the financial aspects and the social aspects, because there is no point in doing the financial stuff unless you have got your goals ahead of you in terms of how you can improve society. That is what we are here for. We did not get elected just to balance the budget. We want to balance the budget for a specific reason - so we can deliver a better Canberra. Some of us in this Assembly have different views about where the better Canberra is, but we in the Government have put together our direction and we know where we are going with it. Mr Speaker, I must say that when I hear the appalling attacks that are made by Labor members and the level of hypocrisy from those hypocrites opposite - from Mr Berry, tonight from Mr Quinlan and tonight from Mr Wood - I am appalled.

Question resolved in the affirmative.

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