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administration of the Territory was not particularly accessible or directly connected with the interests of the ACT.
I am not referring to His Excellency's views on the ACT, or his interest in the ACT in a personal sense; but there is no doubt at all that the present legislation does not provide for a head of state in the ACT whose interest is solely in the ACT. If I might refer to the Labor Party's own mythology of 1975, the conflict of interest that might have been said to have afflicted Sir John Kerr was an important contribution to the crisis of 1975. I would like to think that the ACT had at its disposal a head of state who was interested principally, indeed solely, in the welfare of the ACT, and I support the concept of an administrator for that reason. I certainly do not support the idea of making it an expensive office. I would not like to think of gold carriages riding around town with someone called the Administrator in them.
Mr Kaine: What about wearing buckled shoes and - - -
MR HUMPHRIES: Maybe buckled shoes, but that would be as far as it went, Mr Speaker.
Debate interrupted.
ADJOURNMENT
MR SPEAKER: It being about 9.30, I propose the question:
That the Assembly do now adjourn.
Mr Collaery: Mr Speaker, I require that the question be put forthwith without debate.
Question resolved in the negative.
SELF-GOVERNMENT - SELECT COMMITTEE
Report
Debate resumed.
DR KINLOCH (9.32): Mr Speaker, I will make just one small point. I want to make it very clear that, in the alliance arrangements in December of 1989, as far as Mr Collaery, Mr Jensen and I were concerned, there was no thought whatever of jobs for the boys. At my age I am rather pleased to have that term applied to me, you understand; but for the three of us there was no such concern.
MR BERRY (9.33): I am prompted to rise in this debate to expose some of the hypocrisy of the government members in the way they have approached this issue. Of course, their
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