Page 5230 - Week 17 - Thursday, 13 December 1990
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Mr Wood: How pathetic that was.
MR SPEAKER: Order, Mr Wood!
Mr Wood: No, I have to say how pathetic that response was.
MR SPEAKER: Mr Wood, please!
Debate interrupted.
ADJOURNMENT
MR SPEAKER: Order! It being 4.35 pm, I propose the question:
That the Assembly do now adjourn.
Mr Collaery: Mr Speaker, I require the question to be put forthwith without debate.
Question resolved in the negative.
MINISTERIAL ABSENCES
Discussion of Matter of Public Importance
Debate resumed.
MR BERRY (4.36): I rise to speak on this matter, not out of joy at the prospect of government in the ACT being abandoned by Ministers who have taken on the job but to point out to the community the propriety of Ministers who have committed what Mr Collaery describes as atrocities on the community. I guess there will be some apprehension now that the destiny of the Territory in the short term, six to eight weeks, is going to be left in the hands of Mr Collaery. Mrs Grassby mentioned that Mickey Mouse would be receiving a Collaery watch for Christmas. I thought I needed a similar sort of thing to send off to Mickey Mouse. I did not know where to get one; so I got myself a Mickey Mouse watch and thought, "If I can get the Mickey Mouse changed to Bernard Collaery, perhaps Mickey Mouse might appreciate that". However, I could not think of a jeweller who would be prepared to deface the watch.
Mr Speaker, the community will be concerned about the future of government in the Territory and what is going to happen to the Territory. The people who are described by the Canberra Times as contributing to the "House of Farce" will now be left in charge of the cash register. The only two Ministers who do not appear on this poster - one would expect that they do not appear on this poster because they have a measure of credibility - are going off on holidays, leaving the Territory in the hands of the two who do appear on the poster. I, for the life of me, cannot understand
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