Page 5052 - Week 17 - Wednesday, 12 December 1990
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MR BERRY: As I was saying, Mr Speaker, I will also move to further amend the Sexually Transmitted Diseases (Amendment) Bill to include a proposed new clause 5A, headed "Repeal", which is to repeal section 6B of the principal Act. That amendment has been circulated in my name and, if it is appropriate, I will formally move that now. It is not appropriate? I will not do that then.
Mr Speaker, I have nothing more to say on the proposed Bill, other than to repeat what I have already said. It is a simple name change and it seeks to do no more than that.
Ms Follett: Here we go again.
MR COLLAERY (Attorney-General) (11.07): Mr Speaker, the Leader of the Opposition makes a snide comment, "Here we go again". I am pleased that the members of the media are here to see Ms Follett in her other image, because we see it a lot in the other hours of this Assembly. It is pretty snide these days, Mr Speaker, and we sit here, facing that.
Mr Speaker, the Bill before the Assembly results from positive and effective consultation between Mr Berry and my colleague Mr Humphries. It is consultation that works, that proves the fatuousness and stupidity of the comments that Mr Connolly just made. You could not believe how inept this Opposition is. Mr Speaker, the Opposition altered the business paper to bring down an admission that defeats the submission that it made a few moments before. I would worry about being defended on a parking fine by this crowd opposite.
Mr Speaker, this Bill before the Assembly results from effective consultation between the Government and the Opposition - most effective consultation. It was suggested that on numerous or many occasions Ms Follett's office had contacted the relevant Minister's office - in this case, Mr Duby's office, because it cannot be my office - - -
Mr Berry: On a point of order, Mr Speaker: I would just like the member opposite to contain his comments to the Sexually Transmitted Diseases (Amendment) Bill.
MR SPEAKER: Please remain relevant, Mr Collaery.
MR COLLAERY: Mr Speaker, bearing in mind the subject, I will maintain a proper distance from the Opposition.
The fact is that this Opposition has the advantage of having a Bill on its record. In effect, Mr Humphries put forward a Venereal Diseases (Amendment) Bill which is going to be subsumed by the Sexually Transmitted Diseases (Amendment) Bill 1990. That is the language the Opposition has chosen. In effect, Mr Speaker - - -
MR SPEAKER: Mr Collaery, before you proceed, I am sure there was an imputation back there on your distance from members, and I would ask you to withdraw that.
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