Page 1174 - Week 07 - Tuesday, 22 August 1989
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The distributor road will cost an estimated $2m...This will serve the whole of the south Tuggeranong area, not only the suburb of Gordon.
Mr Speaker, the Deputy Chief Minister likes always to get me to table anything I have in my hands. I have with me here a map given to me by his own officer the other day showing that that road in fact is a connecting link between two parts of the suburb of Gordon. It is not - I repeat, not - a distributor road serving "the whole of the south Tuggeranong area, not only the suburb of Gordon", and we have seen my well-reasoned colleague Mr Jensen get to his feet with genuine concern today again on that issue.
Mr Speaker, the question of credibility would be one, were I Chief Minister or even Deputy Chief Minister, that I would force very strongly on my colleagues. I would inspect releases of that nature and particular relationships between Ministers and senior officials to ensure that those events did not occur.
The setting of standards is another issue that the Rally was interested in in this new government. I regret to say, Mr Speaker, that we have not seen - even I have been drawn into it - the standard that we would have expected of the new European-style parliament that this Assembly is. I regret very much that there have been disruptions in the past. There will not be in the future, Mr Speaker. You can be assured that the attempts today by the Deputy Chief Minister to again call us names - Katharine something; I forget the other word.
Mr Duby: West.
MR COLLAERY: West. Mr Speaker, you can be assured that we will not rise on those issues any more and we are going to see that the next days of this Government that pass are spent wisely and usefully in ensuring that the people of the Territory get some measure of government with our support.
It is very clear from Mr Kaine's comments and it becomes clear in detail from my colleagues that this minority Government is not working. It is not working simply because it is not the consultative model that was promised. It is not the type of European assembly that my colleague Mr Kaine and, I seem to recall, Mr Fry, in the wilderness, were proposing some months ago. It turned into something else. To an extent the Rally, and I perhaps, erred in not bringing this Chief Minister into line earlier, but I am saying today, Mr Speaker, that this Government in the ACT is off the track. It is seriously off the track and it needs to ensure that the next few meetings, the next few openings and the next few presentations in the public eye are not used to vilify opponents and are not used to promote short-term ephemeral political lines. I am sure my colleague Dr Kinloch will refer to a couple of those incidents that have been most unhappy and have brought the Assembly largely into disrepute.
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