Page 2732 - Week 09 - Thursday, 9 August 1990
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MR ACTING SPEAKER: Members, will we give Mr Humphries two minutes?
Mr Kaine: Equal time.
MR ACTING SPEAKER: He can have five minutes, but no more.
MR HUMPHRIES (Minister for Health, Education and the Arts): Mrs Nolan is a shy, retiring character, but she is a dynamo when it comes to hard work and energy. That is why I intend to support her in her candidacy for this important position on the Standing Committee on Conservation, Heritage and Environment.
My heart has been deeply moved by the comments that I have heard from Mr Berry today, and I was, for a fleeting moment, tempted to write "Berry" on my ballot paper. I have, however, thought better of that, because I realised that it would place my colleagues opposite, in the Australian Labor Party, in an embarrassing position. At some point in the future - I expect in the very distant future - members opposite will form a majority in this place.
Adjournment
MR ACTING SPEAKER: Order! It now being 4.30 pm, I propose the question:
That the Assembly do now adjourn.
Mr Collaery: I require the question to be put forthwith without debate.
Question resolved in the negative.
Mr Kaine: You were fantasising about the future for a moment, Gary.
MR HUMPHRIES: Yes, I was fantasising about a possible Labor majority government some time in the future. Probably about the time that my grandchildren retire as members of the Assembly, it will be just about getting to the stage where it needs to take over.
Dr Kinloch: We need grandchildren for the schools.
MR HUMPHRIES: That is right; we do. At that point I am sure the new ALP government, under someone who has probably not even been born yet, will want to stack its committees of the Assembly with a majority of members. It will want a majority of members on the committees of that Assembly.
I am sure that the argument that it uses then will be that, as a majority government, it is entitled to have a majority of members on those committees. So as not to place the ALP
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