Page 6294 - Week 19 - Tuesday, 17 December 1991
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that solidarity found its way into the Labor Party team here. I do not think anybody would argue against the single front that we have put up throughout the life of this little parliament. It has been a single front from day one.
There are some players in this parliament who are to be congratulated. I will not mention them all, but I will mention one particular school. There is a very famous school, now closed, that produced two prominent parliamentarians in this parliament, two Deputy Chief Ministers, no less. That is the Cundletown St Joseph's Convent School. I do not know that when Sister Mary Athanasius was thumping me during the course of my piano lessons she would have thought that not only I but also Paul Whalan would find ourselves on the parliamentary benches one day. It is a famous little school. I am not sure that it will be recorded in the history books, Hector, but I thought I would throw that one in anyway.
It has been a great deal of enjoyment for me to have been involved in the thrust and parry of debate here - not because I have liked the people that I have been thrusting at and parrying with, but because this is really about us and them. The Labor Party was born out of a struggle. The struggle goes on. There is no question about that. The union movement, from whence I came, believes, and I firmly believe, that we still have a battle in front of us to ensure that all of the progressive things that have happened because of the Labor Party's entry into politics can be furthered and extended in the interests of not only members who support the Labor Party or people who support the Labor Party but even people who do not. We want to make this a better place and we will all continue to work very hard to do that.
During the course of this Assembly there have been some flirtations between us. Some have joined with us to win things and some have joined with us to lose things, and I point to Michael Moore; but these were merely flirtations. It is about winning and losing and I, for one, do not like losing. I like winning, and I like winning on behalf of the constituency that I represent. My colleagues of this First Assembly, all I can say in closing is: May we all live in peace.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Assembly adjourned at 8.32 pm until a date and hour
to be fixed
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