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MR SPEAKER: I just remind the member that questions on policy are not to be asked during question time.
MR KAINE: I do not mind answering the question, Mr Speaker. I am not aware of Ms Maher having made any such statement, but I am sure that Mr Whalan has his sources of information everywhere and so is well up to speed on what every member of the Government is saying on every issue at every minute of every day. I would have to assume that he has got pretty good intelligence but, as I said, I am totally unaware of it. Quite frankly, if Mr Whalan received that intelligence it is probably garbled, like a lot of the information that he gets, and it is certainly distorted in his presentation. If he cares to, I will introduce the question of his statements last night in connection with the Tuggeranong swimming pool. Either he could not read the documents that he tabled or he deliberately distorted and misrepresented them. Perhaps we can talk about just how accurate Mr Whalan's information is and how well and how accurately he presents it after he has got it.
MR WHALAN: I have a supplementary question. I would like to ask Trevor Kaine, how do you divide the responsibilities for policy development and public statements on the area of the status of women between yourself and Ms Maher?
MR KAINE: Mr Speaker, Ms Maher, as I have made clear many times, is my specialist in the area of the status of women. She is my adviser and she has no responsibility other than that. A comprehensive statement on the status of women is being developed and when I have agreed that it is an acceptable statement of our policy and a correct representation of it and not a distortion or a misrepresentation of it, I will make it available.
PROCEEDINGS - AUTHORITY TO RECORD, BROADCAST AND PHOTOGRAPH
Motion (by Mr Collaery), by leave, agreed to:
That the Assembly authorises:
(1) the recording on video tape without sound by 10 News Canberra of proceedings during question time on Wednesday, 21 February 1990;
(2) the use by any television station of any part of the recorded proceedings in subsequent news, current affairs and documentary programs; and
(3) the taking of still photographs during question time on Wednesday, 21 February 1990 and the use of such photographs in the print media generally.
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