Page 758 - Week 05 - Thursday, 6 July 1989
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Mrs Grassby: Get to the point.
MR SPEAKER: Order!
MR COLLAERY: If my friends opposite wish to withdraw their motion, they may. They need all the time they have got to respond.
Mrs Grassby: We want you to put up or shut up. We want to hear what you have got.
MR COLLAERY: They have all declined to respond. Nevertheless, it will not dissuade me from this opportunity.
Mrs Grassby: We want the evidence, which you don't seem to be able to give.
MR COLLAERY: The issue concerning Mrs Grassby has probably already demonstrated the question that the Rally really raised. The question that concerned Mrs Grassby was directed not to Mrs Grassby but to the Chief Minister. The question to the Chief Minister was:
Is she aware that the National Crime Authority has interviewed a former Commissioner for Housing, Mr Grills, of this Territory regarding the discharge of a Commissioner for Housing loan given to one of her ministerial colleagues? If so, would she be prepared to look into the matter and provide a statement to the house on it?
What could be more restrained, Mr Speaker? The fact is that the question was not directed to the loan which was the subject of Mrs Grassby's response; it was directed to the discharge of the loan. I will not put further information forward in this speech about that, unless the Minister wishes me to.
Mrs Grassby: Let us get it out in the open now. Now is your chance.
MR COLLAERY: The Rally has information that the National Crime Authority interviewed or otherwise spoke to Mr Grills regarding funds transferred from the National Australia Bank in Griffith to discharge that loan.
Mrs Grassby: I have never had an account at the National Australia Bank in Griffith, Bernard, neither has my husband. You have just fallen down on that one.
MR COLLAERY: That is the Rally's information, Mr Speaker. The Minister invited me to mention that aspect just now Prior to this question and prior to the Minister's request, we were not going to mention that aspect. That aspect should be one, as was suggested in the question to the Chief Minister, for the Chief Minister to look into. The
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