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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1996 Week 10 Hansard (5 September) . . Page.. 3225 ..

MR HUMPHRIES (continuing):

Let me also enter another part of the earlier debate on the adjournment, Mr Speaker, when Mr Berry lambasted - - -

Mr Whitecross: I raise a point of order, Mr Speaker. Mr Humphries has not told us the names of the unions yet.

MR SPEAKER: I beg your pardon.

Mr Whitecross: I was waiting for Mr Humphries to tell me the names of the unions.

MR SPEAKER: There is no point of order.

MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Whitecross, if you do not know the names of the unions, I am afraid I cannot help you very much.

Mr De Domenico: The unions do not know his name either. That is the problem.

MR HUMPHRIES: That is the point. It is a mutual lack of recognition, Mr Whitecross.

MR SPEAKER: There is no point of order.

MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Speaker, I note with some amusement Mr Berry's call on Mrs Carnell to provide the quarterly activity reports from the public hospital system. The intriguing part about that call - - -

Ms McRae: Because she has not.

MR HUMPHRIES: She has not yet. The intriguing part about that call by Mr Berry is that he had to be forced by a motion of this Assembly to table those reports at all when he was Health Minister in, I think, 1992. Mr Berry insisted that the tabling of those reports - I think these are the words he used - would damage the public hospital system.

Mr Whitecross: Ancient history.

MR HUMPHRIES: "Ancient history", says Mr Whitecross. I think Mr Whitecross is in a very good position to talk to us about ancient history, because his leadership will be ancient history, I suspect, before very much longer.

Ms McRae: You wish!

MR HUMPHRIES: I can hear the member of his subfaction coming to his aid, but I do not see anybody else on the floor of the chamber or elsewhere springing to his defence.

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