Page 1100 - Week 04 - Thursday, 1 April 1993
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Sly and Weigall
MR DE DOMENICO (5.20): Madam Speaker, last week I was fortunate enough to be invited to lunch in the Sly and Weigall boardroom. As we all know, Sly and Weigall is one of Canberra's bigger legal firms. The lunch was to do with once again meeting the insurance industry, and we talked about workers compensation rates and all sorts of things.
Mr Connolly: And what a good job Labor had done in bringing the rates down.
MR DE DOMENICO: Mr Connolly, I am glad that you said that, because that is not what they said, and they are the people actually on the floor who do all the work. Sly and Weigall is the only legal firm in Australia, I am told, that is now operating in Vietnam and many other Asian countries. I think it is a feather in the ACT's cap that Sly and Weigall, a Canberra firm, is leading the nation in operating in countries such as Vietnam, and they ought to be congratulated. It goes to show all those knockers of the ACT that we can do it just as well, if not better, in the ACT. We hope that many other companies, such as Mr Westende's company, which is now exporting to Dubai, will have the vision to say, "We can do it just as well here in the ACT and, in fact, better". I think companies like that need to be congratulated.
Methadone Program
MR BERRY (Minister for Health, Minister for Industrial Relations and Minister for Sport) (5.22): Mr Moore, in the adjournment debate, raised an issue in relation to the methadone program, with which he has a passion. During question time I said that advice would be sought, and that has occurred. I have had discussions on the matter with my senior officers and I am still considering my response to that advice. More advice will be flowing in the next hour or so, and I will advise Mr Moore of the outcome as soon as I have made my decision on the matter.
Member's Wedding
MR CONNOLLY (Attorney-General, Minister for Housing and Community Services and Minister for Urban Services) (5.22), in reply: Madam Speaker, government members spend a lot of time in this place attacking members of the Opposition for their lack of judgment and inability to make sound decisions. Our colleague Mr Humphries is getting married between this sitting of this house and the next sitting. I would like to say that on this one occasion he has made a sound decision and the correct judgment, and I wish him well.
Members: Hear, hear!
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Assembly adjourned at 5.23 pm until Tuesday, 11 May 1993, at 2.30 pm
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