Page 612 - Week 05 - Tuesday, 4 July 1989
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that a minority government should avoid, given her obvious experience in these matters?
MS FOLLETT: I thank Mr Duby for the question - a very timely one, too. I have indeed written to Mr Field, and I offered him my warm congratulations on the formation of his minority Government. I was not prepared to offer him any advice on how to handle the matter, as I think that to do so might have been presumptuous on my part; I believe he has had considerably more parliamentary experience than I have. But I wish him well - - -
Mr Kaine: His Government will last longer than yours, too.
MS FOLLETT: I doubt that, Mr Kaine; I very much doubt that. I certainly wish him well. If I have any thoughts to offer him at all, they would simply be the warmest, best wishes for a difficult task ahead.
Metal Recycling
MR STEFANIAK: My question is directed to the Minister for Housing and Urban Services. What does the Government propose to do about the metal recycling yard run by Ron Wanless and Co. in Newcastle Street, Fyshwick, which apparently, I am told, is not abiding by the terms of the contract issued to it by the Administration in relation to the recycling of car bodies and other scrap metal, in that it is meant to operate the yard from Monday to Friday inclusive but it is not doing so, resulting in, firstly, a public hazard in a lot of used car wrecks and other metal building up at the yard, which is causing problems for persons, including children, who are climbing all over them, and, secondly, large quantities of scrap metal, especially such items as refrigerators and non-usable parts of cars, not being recycled but ending up at our rubbish tips?
MRS GRASSBY: I thank the member for the question. I am sorry, but I do not know about the matter. I will take the question on notice and get back to him.
Section 19 Development
MR COLLAERY: My question is directed to the Minister for Industry, Employment and Education. Will he confirm that on 24 April 1989 he met with a director of Wollongong Constructions Pty Limited to discuss, amongst other things, the section 19 development?
MR WHALAN: Mr Speaker, regardless of the date, I have never met with a director of Wollongong Constructions to discuss section 19.
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