Page 2874 - Week 13 - Wednesday, 22 November 1989
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being not very far from the city centre; it has the advantages of ample parking, easy access, and things of that kind. It is something that people should bear in mind when they are thinking of starting new businesses. Members of this Assembly may know people who would appreciate the kind of break that this place can offer them, and they should bear that in mind. So I say finally, Mr Speaker, that it is a very worthwhile enterprise. I fully support it. I hope members will take the time to see what it offers at Downer.
Anniversary of Death of President Kennedy
MR DUBY (5.07): I will be very brief. I rise just to remind the house that today is a sad anniversary. The date is 22 November, and it is the twenty-sixth anniversary of the death of John Fitzgerald Kennedy who was assassinated in Dallas in 1963. I rise to bring this to the attention of the house in relation to the debate that we were having last week about the closure of the Berlin Wall. What a shame it is that President Kennedy is not alive today to see the closure of that edifice. I am sure we all remember that speech he gave in Berlin. I do not remember the exact year, but we will always remember the line in which he declared himself and all free people in the world to be citizens of Berlin, "Ich bin ein Berliner".
I just thought I would remind members of the house that today is the anniversary of President Kennedy's death and express the wish that it had never occurred.
Under-age Drinking
MR COLLAERY (5.08): Mr Speaker, I did not hear exactly what Mr Moore said, and I will not comment other than to say that it probably provides further proof as to why I went grey so quickly in the three months he was in my party room.
The matter I wish to address is the very sad and tragic letter I received a few minutes ago. I had left the chamber, but I thought I should draw the attention of the house to a letter which is from a concerned mother of a student whose son attends a college in the ACT. She says her son is, or may be, attending an end of year function tonight. He is 17. Most of the others are under age. The function is to be held somewhere near here, afterwards at a nightclub somewhere near here, and later at a nightclub somewhere closer to where I live. I will not mention any of those establishments.
But this is a very sad letter. The mother will not give her name or the name of her child. She goes on to say that she has no way of preventing these students going out
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