Page 408 - Week 02 - Wednesday, 21 February 1990
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MR BERRY: I wish to ask a supplementary question. Will you now officially name the members, according to standing order 202, or will you apologise to each and every member of the Assembly for these public statements, which in themselves diminish the dignity of the Assembly?
MR SPEAKER: I would like to take that question on notice, thank you.
Police Force
MR WOOD: I direct a question to the Treasurer.
Mr Kaine: Next?
MR WOOD: Yes, it is the next one. I thought you would like to have referred to you a statement by your political friend and colleague Sergeant Mackey that they - that is you - will not be able to afford the facilities for a decent police force here come June the way things are going. Do you agree with this Liberal candidate's clear implication of mismanagement by your Government? Secondly, is this the advice that you have given Sergeant Mackey or is it the advice that he has given you?
MR KAINE: This is a good one. I am glad Mr Wood asked me this question. Firstly, as I understand it, when Mr Mackey made the statement he was commenting on eight years of Labor government mismanagement connected with the ACT, not with the management - - -
Mrs Grassby: No, not the way he said it. You weren't there.
MR KAINE: It is another boomerang.
Mrs Grassby: No, you weren't there; that's your trouble.
MR KAINE: No, I was not there; I am only assuming. I have a great deal of faith in Mr Wood's integrity, and I am assuming that he is faithfully reporting a statement that was made. But, since I was not there, all I can say is that I would draw no inference from that about the mismanagement of this Government in anything. We have not been here long enough to be guilty of mismanagement. If anything, it was the management of the Follett-Whalan Labor Government that left us for seven months with absolutely no negotiations on what was to be done with policing in this Territory. We have inherited the situation and we are fast running out of time. The Commonwealth has said that it wants to transfer this function to us in the middle of this year. We are starting from square one to establish and negotiate the ground rules under which that transfer will occur.
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