Page 5047 - Week 17 - Wednesday, 12 December 1990
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MR COLLAERY: Mr Connolly says that this is bizarre. I assume he says that he got advice, or was it his own advice?
Mr Speaker, the Government will pursue this matter effectively to ensure that the community based request from the Canberra Yacht Club is met. We will, as a government, seek Commonwealth agreement to joint ACT and Commonwealth legislation to remedy the appalling legislative mess we have inherited from the Commonwealth in relation to the collision rules for boats on the lake.
Mr Speaker, I am mindful that the Leader of the Opposition has made a letter available. I presume that it came to the Leader of the Opposition from Mr John White, Rear Commodore, Operations, Canberra Yacht Club. I endorse the worthwhile aims that the rear commodore seeks and I commit the Government to attending to those anomalies. But this again is an example of an Opposition that forgets that it is not in government and wants to assume, in a presumptive manner, that it knows best and that it does not have to consult with the Government because, Mr Speaker, their - - -
Ms Follett: Mr Speaker, this is bizarre. We tried; we have been trying for weeks.
MR COLLAERY: Look, Mr Speaker; their heads are moving like that well-known shide show attraction.
Ms Follett: Shide show?
MR COLLAERY: Yes, all we need is a few white balls; we will drop them in and we will have won a prize.
Mr Speaker, the Opposition members are shocked and surprised, but this is truly a sad day for the Opposition when it brings a Bill in to provide some navigational rules and it cannot get its lakes straight.
Ms Follett: Professor Whalan got it wrong too.
MR COLLAERY: Mr Speaker, the Leader of the Opposition now attacks a former member of the Assembly, Mr Whalan, in his absence. I think that is - - -
MR SPEAKER: Order!
Mr Connolly: Professor Whalan, actually; a different person.
MR COLLAERY: I mean, Professor Whalan.
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