Page 587 - Week 02 - Thursday, 21 February 1991
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MR STEVENSON: What Mr Collaery is saying is that I have had three months to ask these questions. Well, they are being asked now. One of the problems in this Assembly is that we have someone introduce a Bill and there it sits; nobody apart from the introducer talks on the matter. Later on - the same day, one day, two days, five days, three months, six months later, depending on how it suits the situation - we then debate the matter.
What we should have is a debate like this in the middle of the final presentation. It is something I am going to raise in this Assembly. There should be the opportunity to ask these questions in this Assembly and to have a debate. Is that not what this Assembly is supposed to be on about - matters like the interpretation of the Door-to-Door Trading Bill and others?
Mr Jensen: Write us a letter, Dennis, if you have a problem.
MR STEVENSON: Write you a letter?
Mr Jensen: If you have a problem. You have had since August to write the letter.
MR SPEAKER: Order, Mr Jensen!
MR STEVENSON: You have to be careful about what you say. Mr Jensen suggests that I should write letters. I have written letters to a number of people in the Alliance Government on behalf of constituents, and unfortunately, I might add, I have not yet received replies.
Someone says, "Write us a letter". Mr Collaery might say, "Come along and see me". Mr Collaery has said that he is available any time that he is in the Assembly. I must admit that a couple of times I have gone over there and pressed the button and had a chat with him. I do not think it is the ideal time to talk to the Attorney-General about important matters. I tried to see him on another matter and they would not even talk to me.
Mr Collaery: I am wondering now why I am banning weapons.
MR STEVENSON: I do not think anybody is going to shoot you because you will not represent the people of Canberra. They might not vote for you, but they would not go so far as to shoot you. I would not recommend it.
Mrs Grassby: I would not waste the bullet.
MR STEVENSON: We are talking about door-to-door trading.
Ms Follett: It is going well, Dennis.
Dr Kinloch: Door-to-door tirading.
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