Page 2560 - Week 09 - Tuesday, 23 August 1994
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I have met a number of interesting people in the interim, when I have been away from here. Whilst I certainly would like to stay here for quite some time, I think it is very handy to get out there into the real world and see how things are. I have had the pleasure of teaching a lot of very fine part-time TAFE students and meeting some very fine teachers there, whom I thank for their support. They are very dedicated people. They put in a lot of work. From what I have seen, certainly, the standard of education in our TAFE system is in very fine hands.
I would also like to pay tribute to an old adversary-cum-colleague, whom I have worked with now for well over a year. We might not agree with a lot of what he did and said in the First Assembly. I certainly would not agree, and still do not agree, with a lot of his political views. But I would like to place on record my appreciation for my old colleague Bernard Collaery, with whom I have had the pleasure of working over the last 18 months or so. Whilst I certainly do not agree with a lot of what he stood for and his political views, just as he would not agree with a lot of my political views, I have always appreciated working with him. He is a very fine lawyer and a very fine human being. I would like to express my appreciation for what he has done, for the assistance he has given me and for the interesting times we have had in a legal capacity, after having had some very interesting times in the First Assembly as well.
Madam Speaker, I look forward to contributing something to the remaining six months of this Assembly and I certainly hope to come back next year as well, with luck, after the February 1995 elections. I look forward to working with my Liberal colleagues, to supporting Kate and the team here, and also to working on the various Assembly committees on which I have been nominated to serve. Finally, I would like to place on record my appreciation for the work that my predecessor Lou Westende has done. I have been going through his stuff over the last couple of weeks, and I look forward to continuing a lot of the good work that he has started.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Assembly adjourned at 9.44 pm
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