Page 481 - Week 02 - Thursday, 22 February 1990
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We have one building in which we house the Assembly, the Assembly Secretariat, the Executive, all other members of the Government and some of the administration. I believe that the important thing is to locate those people so that they can do their work most effectively. We do not have the luxury of spreading people out and making sure that they are all nicely segregated one from the other.
MR WOOD: That is what I do not want.
MR KAINE: Well, I do not want it either. We are all in the same building, so surely anybody can take the lift from the fourth floor to the fifth floor without any difficulty. I simply do not see the point of the question.
Civic Square Redevelopment
MR JENSEN: My question is directed to Mr Collaery in his capacity as Attorney-General. Mr Collaery, in your position as Attorney-General, have you had any role in relation to the tendering process for the Civic Square redevelopment?
MR COLLAERY: I thank the member for the question, and I welcome the opportunity to answer it. I have had no involvement whatsoever with the tendering process for the Civic Square project. I have seen no papers relating thereto. I have had no consultations in government relating thereto. So far as I am concerned, those issues rest entirely with whoever was authorised to deal with them, and I have had no conversations of any substance. Nevertheless, it is difficult for any member of this Government or this Assembly to move in this city without mention being made of the casino. We must recognise that. In my role as Attorney-General, I received a submission on or about 10 January 1990 from my Law Office and I am happy to table this to make clear that any innuendo, slander or imputation from the insolvent opposite me has no basis.
MR SPEAKER: Order, Mr Collaery! I request you to withdraw that statement.
MR COLLAERY: I withdraw the description of insolvent to the extent that it is incorrect.
Ms Follett: That was a qualified withdrawal, Mr Speaker.
MR SPEAKER: I agree, that was a qualified withdrawal. Please withdraw.
MR COLLAERY: I withdraw in an unqualified sense, the word "insolvent". In that submission, it was put to me, in my administration of the gaming machines legislation, that on 30 June 1987 the former Minister for Territories, Mr Scholes, included as class B gaming machines, machines commonly known as black jack and roulette. These machines
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