Page 3627 - Week 12 - Tuesday, 19 October 1993
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Mr George Snow
MR BERRY (Minister for Health, Minister for Industrial Relations and Minister for Sport) (9.48): Madam Speaker, I have a great deal of admiration for the sterling defence of George Snow that was put forward by the Leader of the Opposition. All I would say, very briefly, is that I wish that she had used the same logic in relation to her behaviour over Charles Wright. It was a shameful attack on somebody who made no attack on this Government or on the Opposition. Mrs Carnell will long be blamed and found guilty for what she did to Stan Aliprandi when he tried to help the pharmacy industry in the ACT by contributing via the Pharmacy Board. Mrs Carnell attacked him viciously. I just wish that she had used the same logic in relation to those two people.
Mr George Snow
MR DE DOMENICO (9.48): Madam Speaker, we have heard the wonderful sentiments expressed by Mr Lamont, who stood up and read a letter from Mr Terry Snow, and we heard also Mr Berry's latest comments. I can recall an evening not so long ago when Mr Berry, in his capacity as Minister for Sport, was smiling gleefully, shaking Mr George Snow by the hand and offering him a trophy or a cup. His picture was in the paper, smiling with Mr Snow, and saying, "Well done, Georgie boy; you have just won the Sydney to Hobart yacht race. There was I, Wayne Berry, running alongside you issuing instructions". That is the impression Mr Berry gave.
It was all right for Mr Berry to get the kudos from George Snow winning the Sydney to Hobart yacht race. Guess who sent a telegram on behalf of the people of the ACT. There it was; the Chief Minister: "Congratulations, Mr Snow. Well done, Georgie boy. What a wonderful thing you have done for the Canberra community".
Mr Humphries: They changed their tune, didn't they?
MR DE DOMENICO: Now tonight, they change their tune. People opposite say, "What has he done for the community?". Mr Moore said, "What has he done for the community?".
Mr Moore: No, I did not.
MR DE DOMENICO: Go and talk to the Open Family Foundation. Go and talk to all the other charities.
MADAM SPEAKER: Order! Perhaps if there was a bit of order, Mr De Domenico, you would not have to shout.
MR DE DOMENICO: Thank you, Madam Speaker. I like shouting when I get passionate over issues. Where were the calls of "Well done, Mr Snow" for all the money that Mr Westende alluded to that had been given and will continue to be given to literally hundreds of charities in this town? Where is the kudos for the employment of so many people in the Capital Property Group?
Mr Lamont: Congratulations, Terry! To the chairman of the trust, congratulations!
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