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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 1 Hansard (17 February) . . Page.. 279 ..
MR BERRY: No, another one, Mr Speaker.
MR SPEAKER: Mr Berry, you are now contravening standing order 202(e) by persistently and wilfully disregarding the authority of the chair. You are warned.
MR KAINE: Mr Speaker, I seek to pursue a matter of personal explanation under section 46 also, and it has nothing to do with what Mr Berry is talking about. During question time the Chief Minister asked me had I received my message from Her Majesty the Queen yet. I know that from her youthful age the Chief Minister probably thinks that at my venerable age I am getting on a bit. Those of us who are in this age bracket know that we are just reaching mature age. Along with that there goes a certain accumulation, a certain store, of wisdom. The Chief Minister might ponder on the word "wisdom".
Despite my venerable old age, my mature age, I am still a couple of years short of that time at which I might expect to receive a message from Her Gracious Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II. But I live in hope that I will reach that age and that the time will come when I will receive the message either from Her Gracious Majesty or from her successor, King George VII. Regardless of whenever it comes, I have the satisfaction of knowing that when it happens it will be like being Chief Minister of the Territory. I will get there before the present Chief Minister.
MS CARNELL (Chief Minister) (3.53): Mr Speaker, for the information of members, I present the following papers:
Royal Canberra Hospital Implosion -
Report of an assessment of the ACT Government's response to the Coroner's Report on the inquest into the death of Katie Bender at the demolition of the Royal Canberra Hospital on 13 July 1997, prepared by Mr Tom Sherman AO, dated 14 February 2000.
Government response to the Coronial Inquest into the death of Katie Bender on 13 July 1997 - Progress report.
Manuka Oval Refurbishing -
Totalcare Projects Probity Review Report Award of Project Management Contract for Manuka Oval Refurbishment to Project Coordination (Australia) Pty Ltd, prepared by Harmer Consulting Pty Ltd (Report to the Board of Totalcare Industries Limited, dated 15 December 1999).
I move:
That the Assembly takes note of the papers.
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