Page 1648 - Week 06 - Wednesday, 18 May 1994

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Ms Follett intervened to say:

I expect my ministers to get on with the job and to do it in the best interests of the territory, and that is what I believe is occurring.

She then talked about unity. Mr Berry said on the 9th, the day before:

I don't know what Mr Connolly is up to.

We can use Orwellian language to describe this as simply a slight change in the direction of the ship, but it is not. It is a very dramatic change of direction. I say simply that it is one we welcome, but I think we are entitled to say to this place and record in this place that the change of direction is one which we have been advocating for some time and that it is sufficiently dramatic to warrant the description "backflip". To water the language down to say that this is just a matter of minor consequence, and nothing to get excited about, is to downplay the significance of this issue. We have before us a major change of Government policy. We welcome that change, and we think the motion as it stands at the moment, as put on the notice paper by Mrs Carnell, deserves to be passed in the form in which it has been moved.

Question put:

That the amendment (Mr Lamont's) be agreed to.

The Assembly voted -

AYES, 9   NOES, 7

Mr Berry  Mrs Carnell

Mr Connolly Mr Cornwell

Ms Ellis  Mr De Domenico

Ms Follett  Mr Humphries

Mrs Grassby Mr Kaine

Mr Lamont Mr Moore

Ms McRae Mr Westende

M Szuty

Mr Wood

Question so resolved in the affirmative.

Motion, as amended, agreed to.

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