Page 2965 - Week 10 - Thursday, 16 August 1990
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MR SPEAKER: Order! Order! I overrule that. I assumed he meant a cup of coffee.
MR HUMPHRIES: Let me quote, in the last 36 seconds left to me, from Mr Bill Wood in the Canberra Chronicle of 15 May. He said:
Inevitably, because of demographic changes, some schools have to close.
That was in the Canberra Chronicle. Does Mr Wood deny that comment? Does Mr Connolly deny having said that preschools may have to close, at the Hackett school some weeks ago?
Mr Connolly: Preschools may have to collocate; we said that.
MR HUMPHRIES: Well, collocate, close; it is all the same thing.
A member: It is when they are attacking you.
MR HUMPHRIES: It is when they are attacking me; they are all the same thing. They are the same thing when you say them as well. Let us have some consistency.
MR WOOD (12.31): Mr Speaker, I will comment briefly on a few of the comments made by members of the Government. I have to say "a few of the comments" because so few comments were made. Who spoke? Mr Duby spoke, Mr Collaery spoke, Mr Stefaniak spoke and Dr Kinloch spoke. Now, of those speakers, Dr Kinloch supported the qualities of Mr Humphries. He spoke for Mr Humphries, if not for the actions that Mr Humphries carries out. But there was no defence of Mr Humphries, as I predicted, in the comments of the other members. What of the parliamentary traditions - - -
Mr Jensen: Rubbish! Absolute rubbish. He is doing a wonderful job, Bill.
MR WOOD: Well, I have been here writing down your defences and they are not there. What of the parliamentary traditions that you should, in such a censure motion, stand up and support your Minister? Where is that support? I know it is not there. You are very sorry he embarked on this course of action and you wish you could go back in time so that it never happened. That is the case of it.
But let me move on to a couple of other comments. Mr Duby used some words that I want to throw back at him. This is the defence we had. Mr Duby's defence of his Minister was to talk about the deception of the Labor Party and its duplicity. This comes from a former member of the No Self Government Party who came into this Assembly and joined the Government of the Territory. Now he is talking about deception and duplicity. Do you mind! And he was then so foolish as to read an editorial - - -
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