Page 2231 - Week 08 - Wednesday, 6 June 1990
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MR SPEAKER: Thank you, Ms Follett. Please get to the point, Mr Collaery.
MR COLLAERY: Yes, Mr Speaker. I am indebted to the Leader of the Opposition for her double values in this matter. Not once did she tug at the sleeve of Mr Berry - not that she could reach it - but certainly he treated us - - -
Mr Berry: Isn't it amazing how short people worry about my height?
MR COLLAERY: I will be short - and sweet. Mr Berry treated us to a description of what I presume he did in the fire station - that is, the leader of the pack gets up and seeks to make a number - - -
Ms Follett: On a point of order, Mr Speaker; again this is just not relevant.
MR SPEAKER: Thank you. Please, Mr Collaery, be brief.
MR COLLAERY: Now that we are moving to that more unctuous stage of proceedings that comes over members of the Labor grouping as they move from one phase of their approach to the Assembly to another, let me say this in relation to the Bill. Clearly this Assembly should accede to the Bill. The matter is before an Assembly committee at the moment, and I noticed, Mr Speaker, that Mr Berry had considerable latitude in that regard. I trust that he has not made the situation awkward for his own members on that committee by virtue of some of his comments. Also, I hope that he did not shake in any way that burgeoning friendship that he appears to have with Mr Moore. Nevertheless, let me remind the house that it was a very strong Labor group which, in December 1965, in the other house across the road, made a number of very eloquent speeches on the subject of fluoride. If this matter ever comes back to the house, Mr Berry might care to read those beforehand. He might find slightly embarrassing what his own Labor colleagues said about fluoride in a debate in the House of Representatives in December 1965.
Ms Follett: He was not born then.
MR COLLAERY: If Mr Berry was not born then, Mr Speaker, he was certainly growing, because we lose two minutes every time he climbs to his feet on a point of order. The main problem with Mr Berry is - and this should go on the record - that his rambling speeches bring the Assembly into disrepute. They lack humour; they are full of spite and malevolence. That is the difference between witticisms and nastiness. Despite his pure and clean living, Mr Berry seems to have a fair amount of something in his liver these days.
MR WOOD (5.56): Mr Speaker, for the benefit of the house, I will bring it up to date with information I received only
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