Page 2871 - Week 10 - Wednesday, 15 August 1990
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the heart rather than from the head. I would now like to address myself in general to the problem that faces us.
As I have pondered this matter now for many weeks and as I have been to many meetings and met many students and parents, I have gradually come to a series of conclusions. They are my conclusions; they are not conclusions in relation to which I have been pressured. Indeed, may I say that a weeping mother over the Vocaphone, although moving, is not helpful. A little girl saying over the Vocaphone, "Hector, you will make enemies", is not helpful. I have not found some of my friends, who have put to me that there are certain religious responsibilities, helpful.
I want to come to this matter, as we all should come to it, with very great concern for a whole range of agendas. I wish to say what some of those agendas are, and I honour them. I very much honour the Chief Minister's agenda - - -
Mr Moore: When did you sell your soul?
DR KINLOCH: Michael, look, do you want me to speak or not?
Mr Collaery: On a point of order, Mr Speaker: I ask that you name that thing next to the pillar.
MR SPEAKER: Order! Mr Collaery, please withdraw that.
Mr Collaery: I withdraw the word "thing". I ask that you name Mr Moore next to the pillar and strap him to it or something.
MR SPEAKER: Mr Moore, you are running on very thin ice. Dr Kinloch does not interject when you speak. Please give him the same response.
Mr Moore: I seem to remember that we had a debate on this matter for quite some time. We referred to the House of Representatives practice. It is normal practice for interjections within the debate in the Assembly, especially on such an emotional matter.
MR SPEAKER: Thank you, Mr Moore. Please proceed, Dr Kinloch.
DR KINLOCH: May I say that I have not mainly been affected by a range of phone calls, et cetera, nor am I affected one way or the other by Mr Moore's interjections. It is just that sometimes one feels the need to speak clearly and steadily, and perhaps after 35 years of academic life one has a bad habit of lecturing. Forgive me. So, in coming to this, I recognise, with honour, the Chief Minister's agenda of getting a balanced budget for this Territory and making sure that the finances of this Territory are in good order. I honour that. I also honour the views represented by Mr Humphries over some considerable time while he has tried to carry out that agenda in his portfolio. I assure you that in the very long, difficult and often tense
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