Page 207 - Week 01 - Thursday, 15 February 1990
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Proposed Tourist Commission
MRS GRASSBY: My question is to the Chief Minister. On Friday, 9 February, you presented a paper at a lunch of the Building Owners and Managers Association, at which you said, inter alia, concerning the tourist commission and I quote, "The Government has appointed a commission of five part-time members". Could you tell us the names and qualifications of these five part-time members that you have appointed?
MR KAINE: Mr Speaker, that is a question that falls within the province of the Minister for Finance and Urban Services, and I suggest that he takes the question.
MRS GRASSBY: But you made the speech, Mr Kaine.
MR KAINE: I make lots of speeches about Government policy, but I am not responsible for that particular portfolio area. Address the question to the responsible Minister.
MRS GRASSBY: No, it is to you; you made the speech, Mr Kaine.
Mr Whalan: I rise on a point of order, Mr Speaker. There is a Senate procedure in relation to this matter. This is clearly a matter directed to the Chief Minister, on the same lines as such a matter would go to the Prime Minister under the House of Representatives procedure. The matter relates to statements which the Chief Minister has made in the form of a speech and it should properly be answered by him because obviously the alternative speaker, the Minister, is not competent to handle that particular question. He was not there and he does not know what the Chief Minister said.
MR KAINE: Mr Speaker, if Mrs Grassby would like an answer to the question, I would suggest she refer to the appropriate Minister. If she does not want an answer, I will take it on notice and give her an answer in due course when I have all the details. She can please herself.
Mr Whalan: On a point of order; the words were spoken by Mr Kaine himself. He is misleading this Assembly if he is suggesting that he did not say the words.
MR KAINE: I have made no such statement or implication. I will take the question on notice.
MRS GRASSBY: There is a supplementary to it, too, Mr Kaine, to which I would like an answer.
MR KAINE: I will take that on notice too.
MRS GRASSBY: The supplementary question is: Is it true that the officers responsible for the speech have been suspended from future speech writing, and you have advertised for additional staff to ensure that speeches are at least read before they are delivered?
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