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That all words after "That" be omitted and the following substituted "this Assembly expresses its total support for the development of a swimming complex in Tuggeranong".
Regrettably, Mr Whalan has seen fit to drag this Assembly down again and I am not going to respond in his style. Firstly, the Government, and in particular my colleague Mr Kaine, is on the record on several occasions as stating its commitments to the construction of a pool complex at Tuggeranong. Clearly the member has some fantasy in his mind that it has gone off our priorities. What more can we do than to state that we are committed to it publicly and to suffer the odium and the electoral backlash if we fell out of that commitment publicly.
Clearly we have made a commitment. Clearly for grandstanding reasons - perhaps the former Minister is sad that he has lost his suite in Tuggeranong, I cannot speculate on the reasons - he has seen fit to waste the time of this Assembly this morning by putting some fear into the minds of all those people who quite properly want a swimming pool - - -
Mr Jensen: There is an election on, I forgot about that. Ros Kelly is trying to get re-elected.
Mr Whalan: And so is Katharine West from the Residents Rally party.
MR SPEAKER: Order!
MR COLLAERY: This member has, week by week misled and used the type space in the Tuggeranong Valley View to claim that this Government has made a decision not to fund the pool. That is a total absurdity. The fact is that on 6 December 1989, the day after we took Government, my colleague Mr Stefaniak, on my instruction requested the departmental file for the Tuggeranong pool complex. At the time that file was secured by Mr Stefaniak in our very great interest to see this project proceed, we found it contained no documents that could resemble, on my instructions, anything that comes remotely within the Cabinet confidentiality rule.
To put one aspect to rest, I was saddened to hear this former member of Government impute to the Administration the suggestion that it would make Cabinet documents available to us. That was a disgraceful suggestion.
Mr Speaker, I seek leave to table the following paper:
Handling of Cabinet Papers - Copy of minute from Mr W.J. Harris, Secretary, Chief Minister's Department to Mr J.V. Townsend, Secretary, Office of Industry and Development, dated 5 December 1989.
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