Page 2957 - Week 13 - Thursday, 23 November 1989
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Mrs Grassby: You cannot under 213. He never quoted from them. You have to quote from the documents before you have to table them. God, I would hate to have you as a lawyer, Bernard.
Mr Berry: On a point of order - - -
MR SPEAKER: Order! Let us sort out one thing at a time. Deputy Chief Minister, did you quote from the documents?
Mr Whalan: Mr Speaker, I quoted from no documents while I was speaking.
MR SPEAKER: I believe your motion is out of order, Mr Collaery.
Mr Wood: Mr Speaker - - -
MR SPEAKER: Just a moment, Mr Wood.
Mr Wood: Well, you have got to be quick here or you are dead.
MR SPEAKER: I call on Minister Berry to make his point if he still wishes to do so.
Mr Berry: My point of order has been satisfied by your generous judgment.
Confidence in Government
MR WOOD (4.55): I want to express my confidence in the Government of the ACT, this historic first Government of the ACT. Let me point out, if it needs to be pointed out, that that Government initiated all proceedings for the governmental activities that have occurred in just over six months. This Government took control of the ACT when no-one else was able to do so and it has performed in a magnificent fashion for six months. Let me tell you again. Six months ago there was a broad outline of how departments and the Government, and the opposition too, might run, but it required people to get in there and put it all together.
I have heard no criticism of the Government outside in the community but I do not, perhaps, mix in every corner. I have heard great criticism of the shambles that comes from the opposition from time to time. The Chief Minister of the ACT stands in high esteem in the ACT and beyond, and I have heard no criticism today of the Chief Minister or of her programs.
Mr Collaery: Have you not been reading the papers?
MR WOOD: It may do you well to read them, Mr Collaery; perhaps read today's paper. The Chief Minister took over control just over six months ago and with three other
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