Page 3135 - Week 15 - Thursday, 14 December 1989
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MR WOOD: Well, that is interesting. Mr Kaine might tell us that later on.
Mr Humphries: You are wrong, Bill.
Mrs Nolan: You were Cabinet secretary.
MR WOOD: I was not a part of Cabinet. I can tell you that.
MR SPEAKER: Order!
Mr Humphries: Well, you were more a part than the executive deputies are now.
MR WOOD: I administered no department.
Mr Humphries: Neither do they.
Mrs Grassby: They do.
MR WOOD: Now, these people - - -
Mr Humphries: They do not.
MR SPEAKER: Order!
Mr Jensen: On a point of order, Mr Speaker; I do not wish to be churlish but I am just wondering whether Mr Wood is speaking to the paper that he is producing or whether he is speaking to something else.
Ms Follett: Of course he is - committee reports.
Mr Jensen: He is speaking about committees, not reports.
MR WOOD: Mr Jensen, you do like points of order.
MR SPEAKER: Please stick to the point though, Mr Wood.
MR WOOD: Yes, indeed I will, because what is going to happen here is that the parliamentary accounts committee is going to be the committee that monitors the work of this independent commission. Now, you ask yourself that question, Mr Jensen. You think I am off the track. I am very much on the track, because we may later find - and some of this is speculation - based on what we have read in the paper, that the parliamentary accounts committee, with that structure, is going to report to the Government. Where is the authority of parliament in that committee? Am I not justified in taking this track? Surely I am.
What we have got here is the Residents Rally committee or collegiate government proposal, but we are in an Assembly that is not geared for that. We cannot go down that track. It is not a Kaine coalition; it is a Collaery coalition, with Sir Robert Sparkes pulling the strings in the background. That is what we have. If you look at the
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