Page 2281 - Week 08 - Thursday, 7 June 1990
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feet I was thinking about the improved behaviour of the Chief Minister and I wondered what it was that was driving him to improve his behaviour, because in the past sitting days it has been absolutely terrible, with personal interjections and all those sorts of things. I see that now that I have got to my feet we can expect more of the same.
As I have said, this is a stunt by Mr Stevenson. It is on the old argument of X-rated videos, but one thing that it does do, of course, is lead us to the arguments about the lack of integrity of this Government, the lack of credibility, the hypocrisy and the contradiction. Of course, the buck stops with the Chief Minister. The reason why it stops with the Chief Minister is that he is, after all, the chief architect of the Government, the guiding hand, and is therefore the author of their blueprint that was introduced into this house in December.
Where has it all led us? As I said earlier, it has led us into a government that lacks integrity, lacks credibility, and has taken hypocrisy to new heights, as it has done with contradiction. All these issues have been raised in this Assembly by the Labor team on many occasions, and they will be raised again and again as the Government repeats itself in respect of those behavioural problems.
Today we may hear the Chief Minister respond and we may hear him answer some of the charges. So far he has fostered the hypocrisy and the contradictions, and has added to the lack of credibility and the lack of integrity of the Government opposite; therefore, he wears it. He has defended the members of his Government - Government members who ought not be defended, who ought to be dumped. He has fostered the actions which have brought us to these charges.
From the beginning, when we were elected, some of the members opposite have done nothing to improve the image of this Assembly. As the leader of that group, the Chief Minister wears that as well. He wears the responsibility for the lack of credibility this Assembly has earned as a result of the behaviour of the members of his Government. It has been left to Rosemary Follett and the Labor team to lift the image of this Assembly, both in the - - -
Mr Kaine: Where is she? She does not even come in for the debate.
MR BERRY: I thought your behaviour had improved, Chief Minister, but it looks as though you are going to break out again. I repeat, it has been Rosemary Follett and the Labor team that have lifted the image of this Assembly, where possible, both in the ACT and in the rest of the country. Despite our best attempts, the members opposite still drag it down by the sort of behaviour that we see reported in the headlines in relation to Government members. These Government members are involved in criminal charges and - - -
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