Page 1385 - Week 07 - Thursday, 24 August 1989
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MR SPEAKER: That is correct.
MR COLLAERY: Mr Speaker, I withdraw that. I meant the Assembly business order of the day. Mr Speaker, sometimes I do slip on my words, having faced the brunt of this undisciplined attack all afternoon, so I do apologise for missing my call there.
Ms Follett: Mr Speaker, I rise on a point of order. I think that in referring to this afternoon's debate as an undisciplined matter, Mr Collaery is casting aspersions upon the Speaker's management of the Assembly during the afternoon.
MR SPEAKER: Please proceed, Mr Collaery. Choose your words well.
MR COLLAERY: I assure you, Mr Speaker, I was not referring to the whole of this Assembly. I was referring to a section of the Assembly, and that, of course, identified itself in response to my remark. Mr Speaker, the fact is that both Mr Kaine and I told the Chief Minister yesterday that the LA(MS) Bill was deficient with respect to the provision it made for non-Government members, and there was a clear indication given yesterday that there might be a difficulty with the passage of the legislation in any event.
So, I assure the staff members who the Deputy Chief Minister says are, and perhaps were, affected by the Bill that the Bill was a long way from being a satisfactory document at the time it was brought forward on the business paper today.
Mr Speaker, I also wish to speak to a recent news event that was promulgated by the Deputy Chief Minister. I wish to read into the record a statutory declaration, and I would be only too glad for the Deputy Chief Minister to call for the tabling of this document pursuant to the standing orders. He is already looking at them. It is 113, I think, Mr Whalan. The declaration reads:
I, Christopher John Donohue of 12 Woolls Street, Yarralumla in the Australian Capital Territory, solicitor, do solemnly and sincerely declare:
1. I am the President of Residents Rally for Canberra.
2. On Friday, 28 July 1989 I attended a meeting at Dickson with Sue Douglas and one other member of the Rally executive.
3. We met with two members of the BWIU. It was not a "secret meeting".
4. A report of that meeting was given to the next Rally executive meeting.
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