Page 1538 - Week 05 - Thursday, 18 April 1991
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MR COLLAERY: I have not finished, Mr Speaker, but I have concluded my answer.
Mrs Grassby: On a point of order, Mr Speaker: I make the point that "ethnic", in the dictionary, means "people, folk, human". I think we all are that.
MR SPEAKER: Thank you. That is not a valid point of order.
Deputy Chief Minister
MR BERRY: My question is to the Chief Minister. It is about the continuing and irreversible damage that is being done to the ACT by this perk and power hungry group opposite. I have to say that Minister Collaery is at the centre of it. He and his Residents Rally party have destroyed the job prospects of thousands and caused permanent damage to the ACT economy - and they are laughing about it - by the instability his party is causing to government in the Territory.
Mr Humphries: On a point of order, Mr Speaker: I have not heard any question, just a series of statements from Mr Berry. Could we have a question out of all of this?
MR SPEAKER: Mr Berry, would you please get to the point.
Mr Berry: Speaking to the point of order, Mr Speaker: I would just like to have the same tolerance given to questions as is given to those who answer them. I would also like the same tolerance to be given to the question as was given to Mr Stevenson.
MR SPEAKER: Thank you. Please proceed, Mr Berry.
Mr Kaine: If you have a question, get on with it.
MR BERRY: The question will be coming, Chief Minister, and it will be up to you to answer it. The issues, of course, are most important. The report today of Mr Collaery's attack on Mr Humphries is just another example of the disloyalty and instability in the Government, and the inability of the Chief Minister to deal with it. My question is: When will you, Chief Minister, show some leadership and a little bit of courage and sack this person for the disloyalty and instability that he is causing in the government of the Territory?
MR KAINE: I think I show leadership and courage every day of the week. I am constantly defending myself against the attacks from the Labor Opposition - most of them ill-founded, most of them without justification. Nobody has ever accused me of cowardice before. Maybe I had better go back and look over my history to see whether I have any record of it. Of course, when it comes to loyalty, Mr
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