Page 657 - Week 05 - Tuesday, 4 July 1989

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The Assembly voted -

AYES, 1 NOES, 16

Mr Stevenson Mr Berry

 Mr Collaery

 Mr Duby

 Ms Follett

 Mrs Grassby

 Mr Humphries

 Mr Jensen

 Mr Kaine

 Dr Kinloch

 Ms Maher

 Mr Moore

 Mrs Nolan

 Mr Prowse

 Mr Stefaniak

 Mr Whalan

 Mr Wood

Question resolved in the negative.

Original question resolved in the affirmative.

Motion agreed to.

ADJOURNMENT

Motion (by Mr Whalan) proposed: 

That the Assembly do now adjourn.

Fitzgerald Report

MR WOOD (9.51): Mr Speaker, as the house adjourns I want to add another dimension to the comments made here this morning about the report of Mr Fitzgerald in relation to Queensland. The people of Queensland today will be condemning politicians, and I can understand this. They have good reason. I know; I was there. I wonder whether at the same time they will give any thought to their own connivance in their former Premier's long slide into corruption.

Examine this: The longer Joh Bjelke-Petersen was Premier, the more rotten and obvious became the gerrymander. The longer he and his Government were there, the deeper and again more obvious became the manipulation of the police force and manipulation by the police force. The longer the Government continued, the more entrenched became the scourge of cronyism - read "corruption" for that.

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