Page 3486 - Week 12 - Wednesday, 18 September 1991
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introduced to the press. Mr Connolly did not have the courtesy to mention it to me, as a party leader and former Attorney, but I guess I knew that it was going to happen. I saw that happen there.
It would be interesting to know how much it cost the Labor Party to replace those Rally pink blinds in there with colours more of their choosing. I think they are bright red, aren't they, Mr Jensen?
Mr Jensen: Blue.
MR COLLAERY: They are blue. They have stolen the Liberal Party's peace sign. Well, they need peace for their meetings, because they do not have much of it in their meetings.
Mr Deputy Speaker, I think that sort of level of frivolity and the clinking of glasses contrasts very badly when I have a couple of part-time staff working their hearts out on the fifth floor. Yesterday one of my staff worked from eight until about six. I think those hours are very long for her in this chamber. I have said before how improper and how unfair is the refusal to staff the Rally on an equitable basis. How unfortunate it is for the staff of the Rally to see the frivolity in that place on days when they are working their hearts out because we are so short-staffed.
I think members will discern that there is a quite unpleasant relationship developing between the Rally and the Labor Party. There was a promise of a level of cooperation. It has been dashed by the double values of the party in the areas I have mentioned, that we are hearing around the Left of this town, and the double values on the fifth floor.
Legislation Program
MR MOORE (4.15): Mr Deputy Speaker, I sat here with some mirth, not so much about the last speech - that was just totally mirthful - but about the speeches beforehand about community consultation. It is ironic that members of the Rally and members of the Liberal Party, who sat there in the Alliance Government and basically ignored what anybody was saying and used their numbers to push things through, should now start berating the Labor Party about community consultation.
The situation was that we were bringing a Bill on much too quickly. In fact, I was the one who raised it in our meeting - I think Mr Berry will recall - on Friday afternoon. I said that this was inappropriate and that we ought not do it, but that I was prepared to compromise and debate the in-principle stage of the Bill. That is why I voted along those lines as well.
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