Page 2468 - Week 12 - Tuesday, 14 November 1989
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MR BERRY: It is a matter of fact, Mr Speaker, that the period of my being Minister coincided with - - -
Mr Humphries: By about half. January to May is quite a long time.
MR BERRY: Of course, I take much of the credit for that, and I think the Government, in its relationship with the trade union movement, takes the credit for that as well.
Mrs Nolan: On a point of order, Mr Speaker; can I have a yes or no answer?
MR BERRY: No.
Mr Humphries: I raise a point of order, Mr Speaker. The question was quite clear and explicit. The Minister has made no attempt to answer it. The period of his stewardship of health, if that is what it could be called, has extended for only half of the period during which the interim hospitals board has been in place. The Minister is attempting to answer only half of Mrs Nolan's question.
MR SPEAKER: Thank you.
Grass Mowing
DR KINLOCH: Mr Speaker, my question is directed to the Minister for Housing and Urban Services. On behalf of several constituents I would like to draw attention to extensive growth of tall grass in many public areas. I give an example from the north side. The situation is so bad that one of the tall signs naming the Mount Ainslie Nature Park is not visible because of the tall grass. One elderly woman, whose home I visited this morning, which backs onto Mount Ainslie, is worried about a potential bushfire on Mount Ainslie.
Could the Minister investigate the current crisis dimension of heavy growth? I am not blaming the Minister for that, of course. Could the Minister rethink the situation in which private contractors have been given reason to believe that their mowing contracts may soon be over?
Mr Duby: When is she going to start the Hustlers?
Mr Moore: Exactly. Get a few Hustlers in.
MRS GRASSBY: Thank you, Dr Kinloch. No, we are not talking about Hustlers. We have had that, have we not, Mr Stefaniak? There are going to be no more Hustlers, either. Can I say that, with the amount of rain we have had, Dr Kinloch, the grass has grown very high. I do not know whether I have had any say in how much rain we have had. Obviously I would like to think I could do things like that, but I do not think I can.
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