Page 2559 - Week 09 - Tuesday, 23 August 1994
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Mr Kaine: Madam Speaker, I was happy to support the Bill; but I cannot see that I can support amendments that have only just this minute been circulated. I do not know what they are about.
Mr Humphries: They have not even been circulated yet.
Leave not granted.
Debate (on motion by Mr Berry) adjourned.
ADJOURNMENT
Motion (by Mr Berry) proposed:
That the Assembly do now adjourn.
New Assembly Member
MR STEFANIAK (9.40): Madam Speaker, may I use the adjournment debate to place on record a number of points. Firstly, I thank the speakers this afternoon for welcoming me back to this Assembly and also thank individual members who came up and gave me their congratulations during the course of the afternoon. No doubt we will get into the really serious stuff in days to come. I would like to put on record my thanks to a number of people during my 2½ years out of this Assembly. Firstly, I thank my party's preselectors - - -
Mr Lamont: The voters were the reason you were not here for 2½ years.
MR STEFANIAK: No, not at all. Certainly I thank my party's preselectors for nominating me for this position. I would like to make a couple of other points.
Mr Kaine: You are obviously the best woman for the job!
MR STEFANIAK: It is "Bill", not "Hill"; but no doubt Cheryl Hill and a lot of other Liberals will be here in February 1995. I would like to reiterate what I have said to the media and to my own party on a number of occasions. As I said in the First Assembly, probably the most important job of any person in this Assembly is to be accountable to the electorate, to represent the interests of electors and to do their best as a voice for those electors who come to see them with their immediate problems. That was certainly something I tried to do in the First Assembly. I have said on a number of occasions that my door will always be open. I have never sent away anyone who wanted to see me. That is certainly something that I will try to do in the remaining six months of this Assembly.
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