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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1996 Week 14 Hansard (12 December) . . Page.. 4945 ..

MR MOORE (continuing):

Mr Kaine, from 14 October, from Tom Stoppard: "Age is a high price to pay for maturity". Mr Stefaniak, yours comes from 20 September and is from Paul Valery: "If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. `Nothing in the paper today', we sigh".

Mr Berry is not here at the moment, but I will be happy to pass this on to him. His is from 5 December and is from Euripides: "There's nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck". Mr Hird, this year, you are going to do much better than you did last year. Yours is from Robert Frost, from 18 March: "The only way round is through". Ms Follett - and, in fact, I am going to have another one for Ms Follett - this one, you will be pleased to know, I had actually chosen before today's announcement. It is from 15 October, and, of all people, it is from Blanche d'Alpuget: "Convent girls never leave the Church, they just become feminists. I learned that in Australia".

Ms McRae: What about convent boys? I think that could apply to boys, too.

MR MOORE: Indeed, we do know about convent boys - Mr Osborne and me. For Mrs Carnell, from 2 January, from Saki, H.H. Munro: "A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tonnes of explanations". For you, Mr Cornwell - and you will be pleased to know that this one was selected before lunchtime today - from 17 July, from Oliver Wendell Holmes: "Don't be consistent, but be simply true". Mr Whitecross, from 2 April: "I feel bad that I don't feel worse", from Michael Frayn. Mr De Domenico, from John Donne, from 18 June, "The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can". Ms Reilly, from 10 June, from George VI: "We're not a family; we're a firm". Mr Humphries, from 2 August, from Shakespeare: "Brevity is the soul of wit". Ms Horodny, from 29 February, from Mark Twain: "I was born modest - not all over, but in spots".

Mr Speaker, in wishing everyone a merry Christmas, I would like to extend that wish, first of all, to the member of your staff that brought me the desk calendar. I also extend that wish to the Clerk and the Deputy Clerk, whom I actually had a desk calendar proverb for but felt that it was probably inappropriate for me to include them in this session. Perhaps I can dig it out and give it to them privately. I would like to say thank you for all your assistance in the year, and Merry Christmas to you and all your staff who do so much for us.

To conclude, Mr Speaker, I would like to add my support to the comments that have been made on Ms Follett. I finish with the one I had chosen for her, the final one, from 31 December, the proverb: "All's well that ends well".

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