Page 3037 - Week 11 - Tuesday, 10 September 1991
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MS FOLLETT: It is a fact that as part of National Aboriginal Week I did give formal agreement to the Aboriginal flag being flown in the ACT. I am unaware that any flag was flown upside down. If that is the case, then I give my sincere apologies to the Aboriginal community. I should say that it was not pointed out to me at the time that there was any flag flying upside down. I would certainly have rectified that matter had it been drawn to my attention. Mr Duby also raised the matter of what he has referred to as an Aboriginal embassy on the lakeside. That is a matter for my colleague Mr Wood. If Mr Duby wishes to take that question seriously, then I would ask Mr Wood to respond to it on notice.
Members' Pecuniary Interests
MR COLLAERY: My question is to the Chief Minister. Chief Minister, on 24 May 1989 you, in introducing the requirements for members to state their assets and liabilities and pecuniary interests, included a statement that you required sources of income and gifts to be declared. Was the racehorse, Gypsy Current, referred to in today's paper, in fact a gift; and, if so, why has it not been declared as such in your statement of pecuniary assets and liabilities?
MS FOLLETT: Honestly, Mr Collaery's own rumours and scandalmongering come home to roost. He started this rumour, and it was brought to my attention that he had started it at the time. The fact is that the racehorse was not a gift. Any such implication by Mr Collaery, and the rumourmongering that he went to some trouble to engender on the matter, is absolute falsehood. Mr Speaker, I did own a share of that horse. I paid for it. I no longer own a share of that horse, for the obvious reasons that I think members could probably guess at. Really, Mr Collaery, if that is the best you can do, I reckon 30 minutes is a waste of time for most of you.
Public Hospital Beds
MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Speaker, my question is to the Minister for Health. I remind the Minister that on 2 May this year he asked the then Minister - me - the following question: "How many public hospital beds do we have in the ACT at this very moment?". I therefore would be interested to see whether Mr Berry can turn the tables when I ask him the question: How many public hospital beds do we have in the ACT at this very moment?
MR BERRY: The question is on notice, Mr Speaker.
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