Page 2454 - Week 11 - Thursday, 2 November 1989
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South Africa
MR COLLAERY: I fully endorse what my brother, at least in this matter, Mr Berry, said. Of course, we are all appalled by what is going on in the Republic of South Africa and, as a democratic parliamentary assembly, we need to use our position here, close to the other house, to keep pressure up on the Federal Labor Government for it to recognise some of the United Nations General Assembly resolutions in this regard, or to continue its recognition of them.
I am not wishing to make political points. There are a number of areas where I believe Australia's consciousness needs to be raised. I think the union movement in the ACT has been at the forefront of the peaceful side of that activity. I congratulate the union movement and I support what Mr Berry said, completely and utterly.
I also endorse the resolutions at the conference in Kuala Lumpur where renewal and a request for more vigour in the sanctions were introduced, regrettably without support from the United Kingdom. The Australian Government is to be applauded for taking the stand it did, but certainly more should be done to raise the Australian consciousness about those allegedly judicial executions and of course the extrajudicial executions and the perversion of the laws of evidence that allow people who happen to have been part of a group to be said to be in common concert and to be tried and so disgracefully imprisoned for those events.
South Africa
MR DUBY (5.24): I rise to let the record show my party's support in full for Mr Berry's statements. The system in South Africa of apartheid, I think, is repulsive to all thinking men and women, and we support his statement completely.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Assembly adjourned at 5.25 pm until Tuesday, 14 November 1989, at 2.30 pm
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