Page 3172 - Week 15 - Thursday, 14 December 1989
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MR SPEAKER: Order! Mr Whalan, I do take the point that there was an imputation made and I request you to withdraw it.
Mr Whalan: Mr Speaker, if you think that there is something improper about Mr Duby wanting to go overseas, then I withdraw the imputation.
Mr Jensen: On a point of order, Mr Speaker; that is qualified.
MR SPEAKER: Thank you, Mr Whalan.
Mr Duby: Mr Speaker, that is a qualified withdrawal. The imputation that Mr Whalan is giving in his withdrawal is that I have some desire to go overseas. Such is not the case and I would ask him to withdraw completely.
MR SPEAKER: Order, I believe that the withdrawal will show in the Hansard. I believe that probably is covered, Mr Duby.
MR KAINE (Chief Minister) (12.40): I just want to make a comment on some of the matters that Mr Whalan raised during his tirade. I once before raised the question of whether Mr Whalan had been using some hallucinogenic material, and I have to perhaps ask the same question again.
MR SPEAKER: I would ask you to withdraw that comment, Chief Minister.
MR KAINE: I withdraw that comment, Mr Speaker, although I thought Mr Whalan might see the humour in it.
Mr Whalan: On a point of order, Mr Speaker; sometimes, when I look across there, I do think I have had some hallucinogenic material.
MR SPEAKER: That was not a point of order. Please proceed, Chief Minister.
MR KAINE: Mr Whalan made much of the fact that he would like to have met yesterday so that he could address some private members' business. I would just like to comment, Mr Speaker, that on the notice paper about a week or 10 days ago there appeared 13 private members' motions from Mr Whalan. He was seven months a Minister, and the day after he got deposed, 13 private members' motions appeared on the notice paper. What did he do while he was the Minister? These include, Mr Speaker, this swimming pool for Tuggeranong which has now become the first thing on Mr Whalan's agenda. Where was the swimming pool for the last seven months? It did not even get a mention. Now the swimming pool is the No. 1 item on the agenda. So much for Mr Whalan's private members' business!
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