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YOUTH HOUSING MEASURES
Ministerial Statement and Paper
Consideration resumed from 17 October 1989, on motion by Mrs Grassby:
That the Assembly takes note of the following paper:
Youth housing measures - Ministerial statement, 17 October 1989.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
ADJOURNMENT
Motion (by Mr Whalan) proposed:
That the Assembly do now adjourn.
San Francisco Earthquake
MR KAINE (Leader of the Opposition) (4.43): The Chief Minister earlier made a statement in connection with the tragedy of San Francisco and I would like to say a few words on that subject myself during this adjournment debate.
This matter, for me, is not a remote thing. I have some very good and longstanding friends in the city of San Francisco, a number of whom live in the Marina area which seems to have been badly affected by the earthquake in San Francisco. I also have very good friends who live just south of the city, in San Jose, which is closer to the epicentre than the city of San Francisco itself. I have been unable to contact any of those people and I am gravely concerned about their situation. I am sure there are a lot of people like me in Australia who have friends and relations in that city who are equally concerned.
San Francisco, of course, is a city which, apart from the personal relationships, has had a long association with this country of ours. In the city of San Francisco there is a suburb of Ballarat, and that of course was named by those goldminers who came from the United States to Australia during our gold rush years and who went back to the United States later and named that suburb. Of course, for many decades, particularly in the last century, whaling ships out of the port of San Francisco hunted for whales in our waters.
There has been a long, long relationship between that city in the United States and Australia, and for such a tragedy to pass unremarked upon, I think, would be a very bad
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