Page 1961 - Week 07 - Thursday, 31 May 1990
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distribution of those funds, but it strikes me as quite odd that that advisory group has been set up without proper consultation in the community.
When I learned that this was to be set up I heard that there were a number of names that had already been agreed to and I thought I would find out who had been consulted on this issue. I wrote to well over a hundred sporting organisations around the Territory and I found that none of them had been consulted. I arranged some community meetings so that we could get some information to the Minister about our concern over that. The Minister, of course, has said that he has consulted fully on this issue but it is clear that he has not. He said that he had taken my views into account when he made the decision about the appointment of certain persons to that board.
Mr Humphries: It does not mean I accept them.
MR BERRY: The Minister has never heard my views about the people who are on that advisory body. He has never heard my views. The Minister has misled yet again.
Mr Humphries: Misled what?
MR BERRY: Mr Speaker, he has misled the Leader of the Opposition for a start when he said that he had taken my views into account. He has not even had them.
Mr Humphries: I have taken your views into account.
MR BERRY: You have not even had my views.
Mr Humphries: What about the meeting upstairs? Do you recall?
MR SPEAKER: Order! Mr Berry, please!
MR BERRY: Mr Speaker, the fact of the matter is that my views were never canvassed by the Minister in relation to any of the individuals that he appointed.
Mr Humphries: Who told me you wanted a union representative on the committee?
MR SPEAKER: Mr Humphries, please! Order!
MR BERRY: Mr Speaker, the token consultation that has been undertaken by the Government is appropriate for a capital "K" conservative government - according to Mr Moore, and I agree with that.
Mr Kaine: Since you are ultraconservative it must suit you just fine and dandy.
MR BERRY: Sit down, sit down, sit down. Mr Speaker, there is no point having a committee if it is not controllable and you must therefore appoint those people who you think
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