Page 1543 - Week 05 - Thursday, 18 April 1991
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Civic Square Redevelopment Project
MRS GRASSBY: My question is also to the Chief Minister. How do you tolerate Dr Kinloch's claims to have had a victory over your attempts to redevelop section 19? And remember that flattery is the food of fools.
Dr Kinloch: Not so. Quote it. Table the statement. I just said the very opposite on the ABC news at noon.
MR SPEAKER: Order, Dr Kinloch!
Dr Kinloch: I am entitled to answer that.
MR SPEAKER: Order, Dr Kinloch, please!
MR KAINE: It is all right, Mr Speaker; I will answer.
Dr Kinloch: I ask you to quote the noon ABC news as to what I said.
MR SPEAKER: Order, Dr Kinloch! Please listen. You can make a personal explanation at the end of question time if you wish, but you cannot do it without getting leave of the Chair. Please proceed, Chief Minister.
MR KAINE: Again, as is so often the case, the question from the Opposition is based on a wrong premise. A misstatement, a distortion, anything will do. I am surprised that Mrs Grassby would frame such a question.
To answer the question specifically, everybody in Canberra knows that Dr Kinloch has a very strong and personal view on the casino. He has held his position publicly and consistently. I do not happen to agree with him, but I am not going to tell him that he must change his mind on a subject such as this on which he has such a strong view.
I find it appalling for Mrs Grassby to raise the question as though, somehow or other, it is reprehensible to hold such a view. I certainly do not intend to publicly chastise Dr Kinloch. Perhaps it might satisfy the Opposition if I take him behind a playshed and beat him up once or twice. That is about the level of the question, and that might be the only solution.
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