Page 5238 - Week 17 - Thursday, 13 December 1990
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MS FOLLETT: I will be specific. I have been asked to be specific, Mr Deputy Speaker.
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: Yes, that might help, Ms Follett.
MS FOLLETT: Mr Duby has a conviction for refusing to take a breath test.
Mr Collaery: That is better.
MS FOLLETT: The Minister for transport has been convicted of refusing to obey the laws for which he is responsible.
Mr Jensen: A law, and he is not even responsible for it.
Mr Collaery: I take a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker.
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: Yes, I would ask you to correct that, Ms Follett. A law.
MS FOLLETT: A law.
Mr Collaery: Well, is she going to withdraw it, Mr Deputy Speaker, or are we going to assist her to correct her own script? They have gone on about this all year.
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: She has withdrawn it, I understand, Mr Collaery.
MS FOLLETT: Mr Deputy Speaker, the other Minister who will be left in charge would not engender any confidence in the Canberra community and I think, again, that it is a matter of grave disquiet that it will be Mr Collaery who will be acting as Chief Minister. Mr Collaery, whose glee reached almost indecent proportions when he spoke earlier in this debate, I believe is one of the most mistrusted and discredited members of this Assembly. That is because he has not upheld at any point the platform on which he went to the ACT people.
Mr Collaery also seemed to derive some comfort from the fact that Mr Paul Whalan, in his departing speech in this Assembly, had pointed out that he felt that Mr Kaine and Mr Humphries were the only two competent Ministers on the Government benches. I would say that that is further evidence, if any evidence were needed, that leaving behind the other two Ministers is surely a grave mistake by Mr Kaine. I believe that in quoting Mr Whalan on this subject Mr Collaery was hoping to score some point, was hoping to find something good somewhere that someone had said about him. Of course, he was unsuccessful on this occasion, as on most others.
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