Page 4319 - Week 15 - Tuesday, 20 November 1990
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Mr Kaine: There are only five of you.
MS FOLLETT: Mr Speaker, as Mr Kaine, the Treasurer, the numbers man, points out, there are five Labor members. There are also five Liberal members, but they have spent $24,011.
Mr Jensen: What about Rosemary,s committee travel?
MS FOLLETT: Mr Speaker, Mr Jensen asks me to comment on my committee travel. I have spent $2,000.
Mr Connolly: How much has Norm spent?
MS FOLLETT: Mr Jensen has spent $4,201. I am quite happy to table this document, Mr Speaker. It is a very interesting analysis. It proves what a bunch of craven hypocrites we have opposite.
Mr Kaine: Mr Speaker, we were told earlier today that that was a word that we are not allowed to use. I would like it withdrawn.
MR SPEAKER: Order! I think I allowed it earlier today.
MS FOLLETT: You did, indeed.
MR SPEAKER: Please proceed, Ms Follett.
MS FOLLETT: Consistency is everything. They are a bunch of craven hypocrites. They have outspent us by 3:1. It hardly requires any further comment. The figures speak for themselves. If there is a junket on, they will be in it, and they have been.
Mr Speaker, in order to save you the trouble of having to rule on whether I can make a personal explanation or not, I would also like to comment on the remarks made by Mr Duby and Mr Collaery in relation to my travel while I was in government. They referred to a visit that I made to Melbourne. It has been variously described as a visit to meet Carmen Lawrence or a visit to do radio interviews.
I would like to place it on the record that the one and only meeting that I have had with Dr Lawrence took place in the Hyatt Hotel in Canberra, at no cost to anyone. That visit that I made to Melbourne was to take part in a variety of media interviews. The reason I went to Melbourne rather than do them from here was that one of them was a live television interview on the Bert Newton show, from memory, in order to promote the ACT as a tourist venue. Mr Speaker, Mr Kaine commented as such on that trip at the time. He has a very short, convenient memory, I am afraid, on this matter. So that is the fact about that travel expenditure.
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