Page 2963 - Week 13 - Thursday, 23 November 1989
Next page . . . . Previous page . . . . Speeches . . . . Contents . . . . Debates(HTML) . . . . PDF . . . .
the house is any demonstration of the amount of work that he is prepared to put into it, then I am sure that he will not have the stamina for the Chief Minister's job. In relation to the Residents Rally - -
Mr Moore: That is okay. Bernard will take over.
MR BERRY: Well, obviously, Mr Collaery today suspects that he knows what he is doing - - -
Mr Duby: Well, he cracked the whip and they jumped, didn't he?
MR BERRY: I must say that my impression of Mr Collaery is that there is evidence of some instability in his character. I have not been able to get a consistent view out of him on anything since he came into the place, and I have been involved in negotiations with Mr Collaery in one way or another since the day this Assembly was elected.
Mr Moore: I have found the same over two years.
MR BERRY: I see that Mr Moore shares this view about the lack of consistency in the approach of Mr Collaery.
Of course, the numbers have still to be counted, and a lot of water will pass under the bridge between now and then. I think that by the time it comes to the crunch people who have a responsibility to the people of the ACT will, of course, have considered the behaviour of Mr Collaery and the Residents Rally and the ability of those people in the Liberal Party who target government as one of their ambitions and will have decided that they are not up to it in any shape or form. I feel confident that even Mr Stevenson might reflect upon the behaviour and the ability of all the people on the other side of the Assembly and even though he is committed to abolish self-government I am sure he would have more sympathy for the people of Canberra than to inflict the people opposite upon them.
Confidence in Government
MRS GRASSBY (Minister for Housing and Urban Services) (5.13): Mr Speaker, I find it incredible that Mr Kaine and Mr Collaery walked out of the committee meetings when we were discussing the budget because they could not understand the process. Yesterday we saw that they could not even understand the budget. Yet they expect to run the Government. They were going to walk out of the Assembly again because they could not understand anything. I heard members of the Treasury say, "My God, you know who the Government is and you know who the opposition is".
Mr Speaker, I would not be sure that they had the numbers. I have got a little bit more faith in you than other people in this house. I think that, when you see how the people
Next page . . . . Previous page . . . . Speeches . . . . Contents . . . . Debates(HTML) . . . . PDF . . . .