Page 4122 - Week 13 - Thursday, 6 December 2007
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MRS DUNNE (Ginninderra) (6.12): I had a disappointing visit to the pictures this week. While advising my friends and colleagues to give Beowulf a big miss, I started to contemplate the sorts of movies that we might watch over the holidays. I myself will be settling down to re-watch Amazing Grace, the movie about William Wilberforce and the end of slavery in Britain. Wilberforce should be a role model for all parliamentarians and I commend the movie to you all.
Mr Speaker, recently I saw a movie about the operation of the Stasi in the late years of the Honecker government—about the best movie I have seen all year. I thought that I would recommend this movie, The Lives of Others, along with Good Bye, Lenin!, as an East German pack for your holiday. But my staff reminded me of your support for the cleaning industry, so we put together a cleaners pack, including The Cleaner, What the Window Cleaner Saw, and Ladies Who Do, a comedy about industrial espionage aided by ladies who empty wastepaper baskets.
Mr Stanhope might like The Dam Busters or a trio of movies, Falling Down, A History of Violence and The Quiet Man; they are coming to you soon in a postal pack.
Ms Porter is off recuperating from surgery; she will have a lot of time to watch movies. She should not spend too much time watching The Benchwarmers, but she might want to get out of herself a bit; perhaps an otherworldly movie like The Forgotten might be up her alley.
Mrs Burke’s range of interests includes health and mental health and disability. There is a range of those British comedy doctor movies starring Dirk Bogarde: Doctor in the House, Doctor at Large, Doctor at Sea. Actually, Mr Speaker, there are quite a few Dirk Bogarde movies in this list. I hope you can pick them. Mrs Burke might also like to catch up on some of the mental health side of her portfolio with Psycho, but beware the scene where Janet Leigh takes a shower.
Mr Barr: Not One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest?
MRS DUNNE: I thought of that. The Minister for Health could sit down with Mrs Burke and watch the Doctor movies, but I do not think that she has a taste for British comedy—and she does know the fate of Ms Leigh. With domestic and child-raising issues to the fore, I am sure, I suggest to her the original version of Cheaper by the Dozen; it would also help the minister for education increase the enrolments at ACT schools.
I know that Mr Mulcahy is a movie buff. During this holiday, I think he should settle down with all the Bourne movies. I know that he finds the character of Jason Bourne inspiring. He is a character who gets shot at and thrown into the sea; they send snipers and hit men of all types after him. People around him get shot up, but through it all the hero emerges—relatively unscathed but wiser and more determined. What better role model could there be for Mr Mulcahy?
The Zorro pack would be a bit obvious for Mr Seselja. Besides, you would have to decide which actors—Tyrone Power and Linda Darnell or the more modern Antonio
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