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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 6 Hansard (18 June) . . Page.. 1745 ..

MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Speaker, I cannot read the documents for the Opposition. If they want to sit down and read the documents themselves, let them do that.

Mr Corbell: I take a point of order, Mr Speaker. Mr Berry asked a question specifically about visitor numbers at Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve next year, and Mr Humphries has failed to answer that question. We want to know whether any work has been done on - - -

MR HUMPHRIES: I have hardly got a sentence out. How would you know what I have failed to do?

Mrs Carnell: Well, Mr Business, who cannot even multiply or divide - - -

Mr Corbell: Mr Speaker, I would invite you to ask the Chief Minister - - -

MR SPEAKER: There is no point of order, Mr Corbell.

Mr Corbell: I have not finished my point of order, Mr Speaker. If you would allow me to - - -

MR SPEAKER: You certainly have not started it very well either. Go on.

Mr Corbell: I would find it far easier to make the point of order if you stopped interjections from the Chief Minister. My point of order is that Mr Berry asked Mr Humphries for information on visitor numbers at Tidbinbilla next year. Has he been provided with advice by the ACT Parks and Conservation Service on anticipated visitor numbers next year, and, if he has, will he supply it to the Assembly? If he has not, why not?

MR SPEAKER: There is no point of order, Mr Corbell. I think you need to understand, because you are relatively new to this chamber, that the Minister can answer the question as he sees fit, and he is answering it quite adequately. Continue, Mr Humphries.

MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Speaker, for the benefit of those opposite, the information available to my department about visitor numbers next year is contained in the public document released already and from which Mr Berry quoted. I suggest that he go back and have a look at that if he wants to know all that I know, and all that Parks and Conservation know, about what is likely to happen in the course of next year. Mr Speaker, my speculation, talking now personally as Gary Humphries, is that with the establishment of a new $200,000 visitor information centre, courtesy of - - -

Mr Berry: Mr Speaker, I do not think - - -

MR HUMPHRIES: Look, he jumps up. He does not want to hear about this, does he?

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