Page 2826 - Week 13 - Wednesday, 22 November 1989
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for an unlimited time to fully and properly air his allegations about the alleged failure by Dr Kinloch to declare donations received during the election campaign.
Mr Whalan: We will not oppose that suspension.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
ELECTORAL DONATIONS
MR WHALAN (Deputy Chief Minister) (11.30): Mr Speaker, today at 7.55 am on ABC radio Dr Kinloch was interviewed by voice-over with that eloquent voice of his and he was talking about his surprise at a donation to the Australian Labor Party. He said - and I will quote him directly:
That was just really a shock. I was very surprised indeed that the ALP would have kept that under cover. I would have thought that the ALP would have wanted the public to know where the sources of their incomes were coming from.
I put it to the Assembly that prior to the election campaign Dr Kinloch received a very substantial sum of money from a private property developer in this town, who is also a prominent member of the Liberal Party, with the instructions that the sum of money be concealed. Dr Kinloch, by mistake, revealed the donor and revealed the sum of money that was involved, and in so doing has done exactly, Mr Speaker and members of this Assembly, what he accuses - falsely, I might say - others of doing today.
DR KINLOCH (11.32), by leave: I thank the delightful, middle-aged gentleman opposite for his comment and I am really amazed. I do ask that he and others look at the Canberra Times at an article by Andree Coelli in which she laid out what contributions were to members. That contribution is not only in the Canberra Times. It is in my own declaration. The amount was $1,000 and I used that personally for the campaign. I put in at least many times that of my own. That donation was from a personal friend, not from a property developer.
Mr Whalan: He is a property developer, a major property developer.
DR KINLOCH: I beg your pardon, sir. I have had a close friendship with a person. We have worked on trying to prevent gambling casinos in this Territory for about 13 years. He and I have been on committees together and we have no connection whatever with property development, none whatever. The person being referred to is a personal friend of mine - - -
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