Page 5232 - Week 17 - Thursday, 13 December 1990
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Government - what they will do at the next election. This is just another example of the contempt held by these Government members opposite.
It has been said by all sorts of experts that the Residents Rally will not get elected again, and Craig Duby will not get elected again. One could expect that that would be a reasonable outcome. I think the Liberal Party people might be in a bit of trouble, now that they have abandoned the ACT as well. It has been clearly shown that they do not care. I do not know whether Bill Stefaniak is going on holidays or not.
Mrs Nolan: No, he will be here.
MR BERRY: Well, Bill Stefaniak will be here. I suppose he will be keeping his eye on any of those youngsters who might play up around the place. He might call the police and get them all sorted out if they ride their skateboards in the shopping centres, and that sort of thing. Bill will not be having much to do with the important matters of judgment, but I bet that while he is here he will be watching Bernard Collaery very nervously because he will not know what Bernard is going to do next.
Mr Wood: He always does, anyway.
Mr Collaery: He will be watching me. He will be hanging over me, do not worry.
MR BERRY: He will not be able to go to the Residents Rally policy and be able to look at it and judge with any certainty that that will be a guide to what will happen in the future. There will be no guide. The form guide is not particularly relevant and, of course, there is no guide for Mr Duby. It will be an interesting time for the Territory, I think. Many people in the community will be nervous about further knee-jerk reactions to the needs of the Territory. Mr Collaery has become well known for that.
I have to keep going back to my earlier statement that the Chief Minister and Mr Humphries just do not care. How could they care if they leave the short-term future and perhaps the long-term future of the ACT in the hands of these two Ministers? I know that the Deputy Chief Minister has said in the past that these Ministers get 100 per cent for effort, but he never talked much about their ability or the quality - - -
Mr Connolly: They try hard.
MR BERRY: They try hard, but he has never come out and said that the results of their activities have been up to scratch. Having been that critical of his Ministers, it is something of a doublespeak for him to leave the Territory in their hands. Mr Speaker, I wish you well in the six to eight weeks whilst your two Liberal colleagues are out of Australia. I know that it is going to be a very testing
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