Page 2187 - Week 07 - Thursday, 6 June 1991
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I think, Mr Speaker, that our numerous achievements in government have been well set out in the document that the Chief Minister has tabled. That is a very impressive list of achievements, some of which the Opposition have supported. They cannot deny that they have supported those things. Others have been achieved in the face of opposition from the ACT Labor Party. I am very proud of those things and I stand by them. We have a proud record in government, an impressive list of legislation that we have enacted in our 18 months in government, and I believe that all of us who shared in that government over those 18 months have something of great credit to our names as a result.
Mr Speaker, the ACT deserves stability. It will not have stability while motions like this are moved. I think Ms Follett should accept that she does not have a mandate to govern and that she should, for that reason, await the election in February of next year and take her chances then.
MR BERRY (3.34): Mr Speaker, this is truly a very serious matter, but I think what is most serious for the Chief Minister is that during that entire speech by his Health Minister I did not hear any defence of the Chief Minister - not one word of defence. Sure, there was a - - -
Mr Humphries: What is he charged with?
MR BERRY: Not once did he defend the Chief Minister's record. It is the Chief Minister who is subject to the no-confidence motion here today, as they would well know had they taken the time to have a look at their standing orders.
Mr Humphries: And his minority Government. Read the paper.
Mr Kaine: Did you not read your own motion?
MR SPEAKER: Order!
MR BERRY: Thank you, Mr Speaker. I know what it is like to squirm, Mr Speaker, because I have been involved in a minority government that has been the subject of a no-confidence motion against its leader. I can see, Mr Speaker, that the government members opposite, or those that are left of the government members, are squirming, and there is good reason for that.
It is now time to reflect on how we arrived at the no-confidence motion in Chief Minister Kaine. We are here essentially to judge his performance. He has had no defence from his own most senior government Minister and Liberal colleague. I wonder when that defence will come. I have to look back to December 1989 when a no-confidence motion was considered in this place and Mr Kaine said:
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