Page 491 - Week 04 - Wednesday, 28 June 1989
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interested in this. To date our water supplies have been kept pure, and we do not have this problem. So I suggest that the members, in any way they can, should rally around the New South Wales Government and our neighbouring electorate.
Minister's Office
MR JENSEN: Mr Speaker, my question is directed to the Minister for Industry, Employment and Education, and in some respects it follows on from a question asked by my colleague Mrs Nolan. Can the Minister advise to what building in the Tuggeranong town centre he is proposing to move his department? What is the estimated cost, including the cost of labour, of moving the Minister's suite of offices from the North Building to Tuggeranong?
MR WHALAN: No, I cannot.
Mr Collaery: A point of order, Mr Speaker. That is a patent breach of question time by the Minister. Question time is not a courtesy to be extended to this side of the house by the Government. Question time is a renowned feature of parliament. This Minister is flagrantly breaching all of the conventions of question time constantly, and that response was not even a response, Mr Speaker. He need not come to the chamber if that is his behaviour.
MR SPEAKER: Mr Collaery, please do not direct the Assembly from your chair. If you wish the question to be answered fully, please present it in writing to the Minister.
Press Officer
MR MOORE: My question, Mr Speaker, is directed to the Chief Minister. Does the Chief Minister accept that her unseemly haste in appointing a press secretary before applications for the position have closed represents a denial of every principle of fairness and equity inherent in considering the merits of all applicants for any position?
MS FOLLETT: I thank Mr Moore for the question. Perhaps I should check whether he wants a short answer or a long answer before I proceed. You cannot win in this arena, I am afraid.
Mr Whalan: If you give a long answer they complain.
MS FOLLETT: Yes.
MR WHALAN: If you give a short, precise answer they whinge.
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