Page 5347 - Week 17 - Thursday, 13 December 1990
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certainly hopeful that she recovers from her back problems very shortly and that, being her usual charitable self, she will be providing a taxi service for others in less fortunate circumstances.
The Deputy Chief Minister will be searching under his bed - for presents. Mr Berry will have a very serious and sober Christmas. He will be planning his tactics for next year, dreaming of what it might be like to be health Minister once again. To Mr Berry, who is not here: pleasant dreams.
The Leader of the Opposition, I am sure, will be at home with her cat and her piano, smoking a cigarette perhaps and eating the odd chocolate or two. I wish her a pleasant Christmas. Mr Wood has been lecturing us today, particularly those of us who are going away, about the evils of not working over Christmas. Mr Wood, as a consequence, I am sure, will be in this place, at his desk working very hard on Christmas Day. And, when he does, he will be able to drop in on Mr Stevenson who, no doubt, will be celebrating Christmas in his office. I think we all expect to see a Christmas stocking on the wall outside the lifts on the first floor. I intend, when I pass them, to pop in a nice little present for Mr Stevenson. Perhaps a copy of the ACT Motor Traffic Act would be nice.
Mr Duby: Or Debbie Does Dallas.
MR HUMPHRIES: Or Debbie Does Dallas, whatever takes his fancy. Mrs Grassby and Mr Connolly will be, I think, at the Labor Club on Christmas Day, seeing whether they can get together what it takes to give Ms Follett and Mr Berry a real Christmas present, particularly when it comes to preselection some time next year.
Dr Kinloch will be joyously celebrating his Christmas, safe in the knowledge that all of us in this Assembly are brothers and sisters and that, although we might have an odd angry word at times and call each other rats, basically we are all jolly good friends underneath; are we not, Hector?
Mr Moore will be in his natural environment. He will be at the bottom of his garden, looking for fairies. My colleague Mrs Nolan will, I am sure, after a brief Christmas dinner, be out at Tuggeranong stomping the streets and delivering the odd press release or 10 to the Valley View. Mr Stefaniak, I think, will be at the Summernats collecting evidence on how powerfully effective the move-on powers really are.
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