Page 2827 - Week 13 - Wednesday, 22 November 1989
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Mr Whalan: And property developer. He's a property developer.
MR SPEAKER: Order!
DR KINLOCH: You charming, delightful, middle-aged man, may I ask you to note that my friend has an occupation. I, too, have an occupation. He did not give that thousand dollars to someone who is an expert on eighteenth century theology. He gave it to someone who was running for office for the Residents Rally, deeply committed to the idea of removing a gambling casino from this Territory. He and I have a mutual concern about that, and I have no doubt whatever that that money was properly given and properly spent.
Mr Collaery: And properly declared. Shame on you for that.
MR KAINE (Leader of the Opposition) (11.34), by leave: The Deputy Chief Minister represented this donation as having come from somebody who is a member of the Liberal Party. I think if he cares to check his facts he will find that the donor of that money is not a member of the Liberal Party.
DR KINLOCH (11.34): May I have leave to table my own declaration?
Leave granted.
DR KINLOCH: There it is, dated January 1989, with the exact amount. That was declared to the Electoral Commission. I am absolutely thrilled to have this chance to table that document.
UN CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD
Debate resumed from 16 November 1989, on motion by Mr Stevenson:
That the ACT Legislative Assembly calls -
(1) upon the Federal Government to defer signing or progressing the UN convention on the rights of the child;
(2) for full public and parliamentary debate on all UN conventions; and
(3) on the Chief Minister to convey to the Prime Minister the concern of this Assembly that laws purporting to be for the peace, welfare and good government of the citizens of Canberra are being proposed and made other than through debate and due parliamentary process of the ACT Assembly
upon which Mr Collaery had moved by way of amendment:
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