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a major contribution which ought to have general bipartisan support. But that does not take away from the opportunity to comment about specific issues.
MR COLLAERY (Attorney-General) (4.39): Mr Speaker, I believe that the speeches have been of very high quality. I have little to add in considering the comprehensive nature of those speeches. I want to raise a few issues to do with, as David Suzuki says, the three Rs - reduce, recycle and reuse. Additionally, I throw in as a challenge to all in the Assembly the lateral thinking that is required as we advance these policies.
I am pleased that the policies are accepted on a bipartisan level. I think it is proper that there be a healthy tension in regard to the extent to which we can implement them and commit ourselves to implementing them. I saw nothing wrong with the way in which Mr Moore put his case; nor do I see anything wrong with Ms Follett calling for an audit of greenhouse gases which in one sense, to me, is tantamount to calling for an audit of the dolphins in the world's oceans. It is a monster issue and no doubt has to be tackled comprehensively through Federal and State bodies.
I just want to throw a few things in. For example, for a few years I worked in an office that had open windows and lace curtains. It was in a suburb, and there were roses growing outside. It was a marvellous new environment after years and years of being in some metropolis or other.
Mr Berry: Something to do with section 10.
MR COLLAERY: Yes. The section 10 airs were very congenial, Mr Berry. Why do we need this level of air-conditioning, one can ask? Can we work out of suits and ties, for instance? Why do we wear the apparel that requires us to be cooled so much? For example, can office workers wear less? There is nothing indecent in that proposal, Mr Connolly. Sometimes some of the styles that we adopt mandate or require axiomatically that we design and engineer buildings to meet the styles that we have adopted. Why do we not start questioning the need for air-conditioning in many buildings? I cannot tell you how often I have gone to the fifth floor of this building and wanted to kick a window out.
Mr Duby: It has nothing to do with the air-conditioning.
MR COLLAERY: Actually, Mr Speaker, I get up there and, when I think of the Opposition, naturally the urge strikes me, I must confess.
Mr Moore: Is that the opposition within the Government or the opposition outside the Government?
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