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actually see beyond the end of your nose. I must therefore assume that you can also see the hairy face of Canberra, and it needs a bit of a trim too. So, Mr Duby, what are you doing about the grass?
MR DUBY: That is certainly a roundabout way of getting to the issue of long grass.
Mr Stevenson: It is one of the green ones, Craig.
MR DUBY: Yes, do not worry. The simple fact is that this year, contrary to the disastrous state that we had last year - - -
Mr Moore: It looks the same to me.
MR DUBY: I can assure folks that it is not. We are all aware of the inability of the previous Government and the previous Minister to handle that situation properly, which was typical of the things that happened right through the administration of the Labor Follett Government. We saw what happened with the inability of Mr Berry to manage the hospital situation.
Mr Berry: Relevance, Mr Speaker.
MR DUBY: We saw the inability of Ms Follett to control the Ministers.
MR SPEAKER: Order! Relevance, Mr Duby.
MR DUBY: Of course, we saw the inability of Mrs Grassby to control what to me seems a relatively simple administrative thing to achieve, namely - - -
Mr Berry: Why do you not go out and tell it to stop growing?
MR DUBY: Mr Speaker, I demand that I be allowed the time to answer the question without interjections from this clown over here.
MR SPEAKER: Mr Berry, please desist from your constant nagging interjections.
Mr Berry: I think the word used by Mr Duby is unparliamentary and he should be asked to withdraw it.
MR SPEAKER: That is not unparliamentary.
MR DUBY: As a result of the problem that existed last year, there was widespread community concern throughout the whole town about the apparent lack of ability to coordinate a simple project like mowing the grass. Since I took over the administration of the parks and conservation area and the urban services area, a number of changes have been implemented in City Parks' mowing policy. The two main changes were to improve the mowing of ovals to better serve
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