Page 544 - Week 04 - Thursday, 29 June 1989
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MR COLLAERY: Mr Speaker, the Rally's view is that the motion before the house needs to be supported by the community. The Rally has joined in the Assembly, as a community-based movement, to see that community interests are protected in this house. The Rally is concerned that this motion reveals to the Assembly that the Government wishes to have the opposition govern. There is an indication in the motion itself that the Government wishes to capitulate its initiatives and its work to committees, as Mr Kaine said. I will save my remarks for the motion. We have seen the opposition members in this house bring forward various motions. There are other important motions in the waiting list to come before the house, matters which the public should hear and which should be properly and adequately ventilated.
The motion before the house today could well have been preceded by an information booklet and an adequate briefing to the members of the Assembly on these issue. Mr Speaker, I draw your attention to an unanswered question on notice, which has been unanswered since this Assembly first sat, dealing with the contracts and contracting arrangements that have taken place in the past in relation to a company known as Nifty Waste Disposals.
As my friend Mr Kaine mentioned, there are some nifty tactics developing on this floor, and of course, Mr Speaker, there well may be a very unpleasant response coming out of that question on notice in relation to the contracting of waste disposal contracts and the like, and other issues associated with concerns in the waste disposal arrangements of the Administration. Mr Speaker, I submit that to some extent this motion may well be a smokescreen or a precursor to the response which must inevitably come out of this Government in relation to that question on notice.
Mr Berry: Mr Speaker, I rise on a point of order. Again, I draw attention to the issue before the Assembly. That boils down to whether or not the matter should go to a standing committee of the Assembly, I would think, rather than some conspiracy theory.
MR COLLAERY: That concludes my remarks, Mr Speaker.
MR WHALAN (Deputy Chief Minister and Minister for Industry, Employment and Education) (11.58): Mr Speaker, this is the most extraordinary contribution to any debate that has ever been made. Mr Collaery, from the Residents Rally party or the Katharine West party, or however he wants to describe it, is alleging- - -
MR SPEAKER: Please refrain from using statements that are going to antagonise the opposition. We want to bring the house back to the program. I would point out that we discussed the Katharine West issue yesterday and I would please ask you to put it to rest.
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