Page 1242 - Week 07 - Wednesday, 23 August 1989
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Authority and Mr Whalan's department - for Mr Whalan to have unreservedly withdrawn in public his attack against me by his statements.
Just in case there are some people in this place who are not aware of what was said, I will read it. Mr Whalan said:
During the question time, Mr Speaker, in a question addressed to the Chief Minister Mr Jensen made a most outrageous and mendacious allegation in relation to the Tuggeranong Community Council.
Mr Whalan: At least you pronounced it properly today.
MR JENSEN: Are you quite finished? Mr Speaker, for those who are not aware, "mendacious" effectively means that Mr Whalan called me a liar. I resent that implication. In view of the statement by the Chief Minister, that was answered, I would have expected Mr Whalan to have had the decency and the good sense to apologise unreservedly.
However, I continue. He said:
His allegation was that my office had in some way intervened to prevent the Tuggeranong Community Council receiving a briefing from the Interim Territory Planning Authority in relation to the Eastern Parkway.
We have been informed by the Interim Territory Planning Authority that it is not aware of any approach whatsoever made by the Tuggeranong Community Council or any representative of the Tuggeranong Community Council for a briefing on the Eastern Parkway and that, if such a request had been made, it assures us that that briefing would have been provided.
I have no doubt, Mr Speaker, that that would have been provided. However, that is not the point. I continue quoting from Mr Whalan:
In addition to that, officers of my department have contacted us to say, that they also were not aware of any request for such a briefing and thus it was impossible for them to intervene in any way whatsoever. It is yet another example of misrepresentation by the Katharine West party.
Mr Speaker, that is the sort of attitude and nature of the attacks that the member opposite has made on my colleague Mr Collaery in the past whenever he has deemed fit to raise an issue of major importance. It would seem that, now that my colleague Mr Collaery has indicated publicly that he will step back from making those sorts of attacks, Mr Whalan has decided to direct his attack to me personally. Mr Speaker, I think it is totally inappropriate and unnecessary for those things to happen.
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