Page 1297 - Week 07 - Wednesday, 23 August 1989

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It is extremely good to hear a member of the Assembly rise in that manner to support the democratic aspirations of a nation which is coming out of years and years of suppression in all of its subtle, cruel and brutal forms. Of course I endorse, as no doubt Mr Stefaniak does, the real democratic concepts that apply to that move.

Mr Speaker, the other matter that I wanted to address in the adjournment debate was the fact that the Deputy Chief Minister is in a position, we understand, to provide absolute and definite proof of the alleged leadership putsch in the Rally. I am advised that the Deputy Chief Minister informed the press outside in the anteroom that that meeting at Dickson, on whatever date he has now got, was taped. Of course, Rod Driver has told me with great alarm that it was not taped.

So I leave the Deputy Chief Minister to his relations with the union movement, now that he has improved them unalterably today, and of course I challenge the Deputy Chief Minister to produce the tape of the leadership putsch, because it would be very interesting. I assure the Deputy Chief Minister that, when my time comes, it will not be from a briefcase under the desk or anything like that.

Assembly adjourned at 6.13 pm

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