Page 606 - Week 05 - Tuesday, 4 July 1989
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I am pleased to state that the inquiry recommended by my party, into self-government and its processes, will achieve that aim. I also note that one of the recommendations in the report, as published in the paper, is:
Provision of non-government parliamentary members with appropriate resources of staff and equipment, and proper access to information in respect of government activities.
I certainly look forward to that recommendation being introduced in this house. As the editorial in today's Canberra Times says:
The lesson for all Australians -
from this Fitzgerald inquiry -
is to keep well informed, to treat all people in positions of power with healthy scepticism but avoiding cynicism, and to guard democratic freedoms jealously.
I can assure this house that my party intends to do just that.
QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE
Section 19 Development
MR COLLAERY: My question is directed to the Deputy Chief Minister. Will he advise the house whether he negotiated a donation from a director of Wollongong Constructions Pty Limited? If so, will the Deputy Chief Minister indicate where the funds were banked?
MR WHALAN: There was no donation solicited or received, Mr Speaker, so the last part of the question is irrelevant.
Very Fast Train Project
MR KAINE: I direct a question to the Chief Minister. It has to do with one that I directed to her only last Thursday when I asked what the Government's attitude was to the very fast train system. I would like to quote what she said in reply:
The Government, as such, has not formally considered an attitude towards the very fast train proposal... Therefore I could not really say whether we support it or not, at the moment.
It is a direct quote from Hansard. In view of that answer, Mr Speaker, I direct the Chief Minister to a comment that
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