Page 2665 - Week 12 - Thursday, 16 November 1989
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and I do not think the Minister should either. He should act upon it and take the advice that was given to him in good faith - and I accept that that advice was given to him in good faith.
Nothing that the Opposition has done or said in this debate over recent days was meant in any way to question the integrity of the members of this board or its effectiveness as a management board. But there was real danger from the things that were being said and the things that were being leaked out and fed out to the media that the board could feel that somehow they were at fault. That is why this motion is before the Assembly, so that this Assembly can assure the board that there is no question as to its integrity and no doubt at all in our minds about its ability to do what it was appointed to do and advise the Minister, as it has done.
I am pleased to hear that the Minister will support this motion because it would be most unfortunate if he did not. But any inference that anybody draws that the Liberal Party is somehow doing something underhand or reflecting adversely on this board is totally wrong, and for the Minister to suggest it, in my view, is unworthy of him.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
CONSERVATION, HERITAGE AND ENVIRONMENT - STANDING COMMITTEE
Membership
MR SPEAKER: I have been notified in writing of the nomination of Mr Collaery to be a member of the Standing Committee on Conservation, Heritage and Environment.
MR WHALAN (Deputy Chief Minister) (4.04): I move:
That the member so nominated be appointed as a member of the Standing Committee on Conservation, Heritage and Environment.
In anticipation of this motion being carried, I wish the member well in his new role.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
SUSPENSION OF STANDING ORDERS
Motion (by Mr Stevenson) agreed to:
That so much of the standing orders be suspended as would prevent debate being immediately resumed on order of the day No. 2, private members' business.
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