Page 312 - Week 02 - Tuesday, 20 February 1990
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Mr Whalan issued a press statement shortly thereafter (a copy of the resulting article as it appeared in the Tuggeranong Valley View is attached) which captured most of the essential points we as a community group raised. The press release, however, apparently went a little further than our agreed position -
"went a little further than our agreed position", gilding the lily, adding a little bit to it. Not the agreed position, but he is adding a bit to it for the political purposes that he is on about. I will continue -
as outlined below and hence there may be a need for a further community meeting to reaffirm our preferred position.
At this time Mr Whalan was going on about the position that was in the statement and he attempted to move a motion last week in the Assembly about adding all these facilities. He wanted to add all these extra facilities that the community at the time clearly understood were not possible under the budget arrangements that were going on. Therefore, they made no bid for these facilities. It was very interesting to see the chairman of this committee - the committee that Mr Whalan himself set up - come forward and distance himself from the statements by Mr Whalan on this issue. Clearly, this sort of action on the part of the member of the previous Labor Government shows just how much store we can put on the information that he puts before us.
Once again Mr Whalan has made these statements without being able to back them up, without being able to produce the rest of the evidence. Incidentally, the documents that he so carelessly flung around at a meeting last night are different, I might add, from the ones that he tabled today. There is a slight difference that Mr Whalan may not have noticed, but the document that Mr Whalan tabled today in the Assembly was slightly different from the one that he passed around at the meeting last night. It is such a small difference that it is probably not worth mentioning, but I thought I would toss it in to let the members of the Assembly and the people out there know how easy it is for this man opposite us to misrepresent the facts. I think it is quite clear, on behalf of the Alliance Government, that we are committed to the construction of a swimming facility in the Tuggeranong Valley. I think you will find that that will take place in the near future.
MR BERRY (3.56) by leave: Mr Speaker, I just wish to draw attention to the disgraceful behaviour of this house. In the last few minutes the standing orders have been virtually ignored, the daily program has been ignored, and issues which could have been raised by, say, a ministerial statement in respect of Mr Kaine's - - -
Mr Kaine: To prove that a member of your party misrepresents the truth, that is what it was about.
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