Page 2502 - Week 12 - Tuesday, 14 November 1989
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Mr Stefaniak: There are not many 80-year-olds on bikes, Ellnor.
MRS GRASSBY: This is a lot of nonsense; it is wasting time. We are talking about helmets. They are already teaching kids in schools to wear helmets, Mr Jensen, and if you would stop interrupting me I would get through this.
There is no way that I am going to suggest that cyclists get on expressways in this city, because I have seen the way people pass me in cars on expressways and, I can tell you, sometimes I wonder whether they think they are in some great motor race somewhere in Europe and not just on an ordinary road in Canberra. So I would certainly rather keep cyclists on the cycle paths and build more for them.
Mr Jensen: Both New South Wales and Victoria allow them on freeways now.
MRS GRASSBY: Mr Jensen, my God, would you let me get on? I let you speak. For God's sake, he is like a cockatoo, 50 to the dozen, all the time. I cannot get anything in here, Mr Speaker.
Mrs Nolan: The gramophone needle is breaking down.
MRS GRASSBY: The gramophone needle never breaks down; don't worry about it, Mrs Nolan. I will be here long after you. I feel that this is a very important Bill, and while I am the Minister I would like to see more cycle paths being built right throughout Canberra. We should keep cyclists on the paths and ask them to use their bells a bit more. Maybe a few people here need a few ding-dong bells too. It might keep them quiet for a while. Anyway, Mr Speaker, I commend this Bill to the house.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Bill agreed to in principle.
Leave granted to dispense with the detail stage.
Bill agreed to.
ADJOURNMENT
Motion (by Mr Whalan) proposed:
That the Assembly do now adjourn.
Berlin Wall
MRS GRASSBY (4.54): I rise to speak on a very important point, the fact that the wall came down between West and
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