Page 2165 - Week 08 - Wednesday, 6 June 1990
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those of us who use the Griffin Centre and know the groups at the Griffin Centre and know them very well were constantly being asked about their tenure there. That is a fatuous remark and I trust that in his usual style Mr Berry will forward this page of Hansard, along with his own vacuous comments, to any friends he has in that area.
Mr Speaker, we also deplore the divisive and incorrect statements of Mr Berry in introducing this motion this morning. It seems to me that this Opposition simply creates fanciful notions and spreads them in the community. By 1992 it will be discredited. Witness Mrs Grassby's statements about Northbourne Flats and some high-flying statements from Mr Moore which I will come to. Here we have a former Minister for housing who did not even read her own files.
We have also in this motion the merited approval or the in principle approval for the construction of our community centre adjacent to the Griffin Centre. You well know, all you members here, that this is a long-heralded event. Those readers of the budget and the capital works program - - -
Mr Berry: You cannot even write an amendment properly. You cannot even turn it round in an amendment.
MR COLLAERY: Mr Speaker, I heard Mr Berry in relative silence. I do not mind a few interjections, but he groans on while I am speaking.
Mr Berry: I know, it was an impressive speech.
MR SPEAKER: Mr Berry, I warn you.
MR COLLAERY: Mr Speaker, Mr Berry achieves his object. He deliberately throws us off all the time on this side of the floor.
Mr Speaker, we have also acknowledged that existing tenants will be guaranteed security of tenure at no greater financial cost than the present token rent for at least three years. We all know that, if we increase the rent at the Griffin Centre, then the budget in my community facilities program and other community grants programs will be expanded anyway. So much for the great myth of this outrageous imputation that we heard from Mr Connolly as well as on ABC radio this morning, that we were going to somehow do a rip-off in our ideological capitalistic way. This is rather juvenile paranoia that sweeps the Opposition at the moment when the fact of the matter is that, if we increase rents there, most of the groups will give me a bigger bill. That is the fact of the matter, Mr Connolly. You do not know anything about community funding in the ACT. What you said on ABC radio this morning, Mr Connolly, was unworthy.
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