Page 1669 - Week 07 - Tuesday, 29 May 1990
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statement on the findings, conclusions and recommendations of a working party convened by the Chief Minister to review the provision and financial management of TAFE in the ACT.
MR SPEAKER: The Chief Minister may speak to the motion.
Mr Berry: Well, is he going to speak to the motion?
MR KAINE: I presume I can speak to the motion.
MR SPEAKER: You may speak to the motion.
Mr Berry: Well, you will have to ask the Speaker; he is yours, not mine.
Mr Collaery: Mr Speaker, I ask you to direct that that comment be withdrawn.
MR SPEAKER: I ask you to withdraw that, Mr Berry.
Mr Berry: He is part of your Government, not mine.
MR SPEAKER: Order! There was an imputation, Mr Berry. Please withdraw it unequivocally.
Mr Berry: I withdraw the imputation.
MR SPEAKER: Please proceed, Mr Kaine.
MR KAINE: I find it rather astonishing that from time to time, when it is feeding time at the zoo, the members opposite jump to their feet - - -
Mr Moore: On a point of order; that is an imputation on the whole Assembly. That is the Chief Minister's attitude to the Assembly and the community's attitude too.
MR SPEAKER: Mr Moore, do not debate the issue. Please withdraw that comment, Mr Kaine.
MR KAINE: I withdraw the comment about the zoo, Mr Speaker. The members opposite jump to their feet and say, "The Government has not got any business to perform. They are light on for business. We want to continue work and the Government has not got any business". Mr Speaker, here we are today, with a full agenda of Government business, all of it important, such as the Priorities Review Board. I thought the members opposite were interested in education. I would like, Mr Speaker, with the approval of the Assembly, to table a report that has to do with the continued management and the provision of - - -
Mr Berry: He would not want to defend Craig Duby in parliament because he knows he cannot. He is going to have to vote on it.
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