Page 3485 - Week 12 - Wednesday, 18 September 1991
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the Real Estate Institute has been trying for weeks to talk to the Government on that Bill, and the Chief Minister and Treasurer has flatly refused even to acknowledge their correspondence - and she talks about consultation.
Ms Follett: I had lunch with them.
MR KAINE: This is the major real estate body in the Territory. This is your consultation process. You bring it up for debate, and then you start talking to people about it. Well, it is not good enough, because there are very serious ramifications of that Bill.
When Mr Connolly gets to his feet and starts talking about the performance of the Opposition in matters of this kind, my advice to him is, "Get your own act together, mate". When you can come into this chamber with legislation that you yourself have thought up and when you give the Opposition and the community time to think about it before you rush it into debate, trying to rip it through in case somebody finds the flaws in it, you will be clean. Then you can start talking about the Opposition. At the moment you are living in a glasshouse, and I would suggest that you do not chuck any rocks.
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MR COLLAERY (4.12): I rise also to express a concern. Mr Deputy Speaker, the Residents Rally lives on the fifth floor, at the end, and we have noticed in the last several weeks that there is a newly furnished area opposite the lifts which appears to be used, to a great extent, exclusively for Labor Party functions. We have seen occasional press conferences there.
Mr Connolly: Rubbish!
Mr Wood: Lots of consultation.
MR COLLAERY: I would suggest to the members opposite that they do not rush this, or we will put them on notice of a question. I am merely raising it in the adjournment debate at the moment. It was furnished at a cost. It is being used for branch meetings. I have seen Labor Party members I know there, at branch meetings. I do not keep a book on it, but I can remember quite a few of the branch councillors' faces and I can put a fair level of proof to what I am saying.
I do not say necessarily that dedicating those resources for party purposes is wrong. I think we need a protocol in the chamber about those things and it will develop over self-government. But it is exclusive, and that is the thing that concerns me. It is an exclusive arrangement for the Labor Party, for ministerial launches and that. I saw Mr Dawson
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