Page 407 - Week 02 - Wednesday, 13 May 1992
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AUTHORITY TO RECORD AND BROADCAST PROCEEDINGS
MR BERRY (Deputy Chief Minister) (3.11): I move:
That the Assembly authorises:
(1) the recording on video tape without sound by television networks of proceedings during question time on Thursday, 14 May 1992; and
(2) the use by any television station of any part of the recorded proceedings in subsequent news, current affairs and documentary programs and not for the purposes of satire or ridicule.
This matter has been dealt with before in the Assembly. The words of the motion describe what will be the outcome if this motion is successful, as I am sure it will be. We will see a television camera set up in this place to record question time on Thursday, 14 May - much to the pleasure of the people of Canberra, I am sure.
MR HUMPHRIES (3.12): Madam Speaker, the Liberals will certainly support this motion today. However, I sincerely hope that we will have a sufficiently long question time tomorrow to enable those members who want to ask a question to rise to their feet.
Mr Connolly: We are talking about four seconds here.
MR HUMPHRIES: The fact is that the stations usually like to get shots of people on their feet rather than sitting back reading or looking around. They like to have people on their feet talking about something. If today's question time were used, they certainly would not see several members on this side of the house on their feet. I sincerely hope that we get the benefit of a decent question time tomorrow, so that we can make sure that this opportunity is properly taken advantage of.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
WORLD HEALTH DAY
Ministerial Statement
Debate resumed from 7 April 1992, on motion by Mr Berry:
That the Assembly takes note of the paper.
MRS CARNELL (3.14): On the first day of sitting, Tuesday, 7 April, we had the benefit - or perhaps it was not so much a benefit - of hearing a statement by the Minister for Health entitled "World Health Day: An ACT Perspective". As the Minister pointed out, the theme of World Health Day was heart health. Unfortunately, Mr Berry seemed to get sidetracked, away from the issue of what the Government is doing to address heart health and cardiovascular disease and towards what seemed to be an arrogant display of credit taking for what were Alliance Government initiatives.
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