Page 1601 - Week 05 - Thursday, 18 April 1991
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MR SPEAKER: Order! Mr Collaery, are you seeking leave to speak on it?
Mr Collaery: I am tabling a document.
MR SPEAKER: No; I rule that you defer to Mrs Grassby and I will allow you to have the floor after she has completed her speech.
Casino Project
MRS GRASSBY (6.15): Mr Speaker, I rise to draw attention to a question that I asked today about Dr Kinloch, and Dr Kinloch then rose to say that he had not made the statement. I have checked, Mr Speaker, and I will be checking about the early morning news. We have not been able to get that. I refer to the WIN news at 6.00 pm on 17 April 1991, when Patrick McLoughlin said - - -
Mr Collaery: What did Dr Kinloch say?
MRS GRASSBY: I have to use the whole thing so that you will know exactly what was said, Mr Collaery. If you will just be a little patient, he said:
From the casino enemies, jubilation that the CBD site has emerged unscathed -
and I quote Dr Kinloch -
I think the people of Canberra should be happy about that.
If that is not claiming a victory over the attempted redevelopment of section 19, I do not know what it is. I will table the others which were on the early morning news from 6.00 am on. Dr Kinloch was again in jubilation that the redevelopment of section 19 would not go ahead. It was a declaration of a victory for the Residents Rally and for Dr Kinloch that this did not happen.
The fact is that the Residents Rally does not care about the people of Canberra who need the jobs. They all have a job - of course, not for very long, Mr Speaker. Come the second Saturday in February, they will not have one. They are not interested in the people who need jobs in Canberra. There are people in the building industry who need jobs, and these people have the right to have jobs; yet they are not given this right because the Residents Rally can crow over the fact that there is to be no casino and no development of section 19. They are not one bit interested in the workers of Canberra.
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