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support from the Alliance Government. We have provided transport and certain administrative arrangements to the organisers of these games.
I also noted with great interest an item that appeared in the magazine or newspaper Public Eye, which was published on 27 March - I refer to one that came out not two days ago. It is published by the Public Service unions and publishes matters of public service news which presumably are of interest to their members. It is always pushing the line that the Labor members of this Assembly are doing a fabulous job, et cetera. I notice on the back page that there is an article about the wheelchair games and it goes through the details of them. The only photograph that it has in relation to the wheelchair games is a photograph of Ms Follett presenting a cheque to two members of the Disabled Games Association. I presume that this was done back in the days when she was Chief Minister, which shows you how out of date the media machine of the Opposition is.
Frankly, I was going to ask Ms Follett if she could update her apparatchiks within the organisation who supply these photographs around and about, because this photograph is a good five to six months old. As a matter of fact it is in very poor taste, because the photograph shows Ms Follett presenting a cheque to a number of disabled wheelchair competitors, one of whom was unfortunately killed in a motor vehicle accident in the early months of January this year. I would like to bring that to the attention of Ms Follett and the Labor Party, and perhaps to the editor of this newspaper, Mr Cassidy. Perhaps they could get their media machine in order so that at least the photographs that get published in relation to every article that appears around the media traps are, at least, up-to-date.
Residents Rally
MR COLLAERY (Attorney-General) (5.58): I will close the debate. Mr Speaker, I heard Mrs Grassby saying, "It was our Bill. It was our Bill". In seven months the only genuine Bill that the Labor Party brought to this Assembly was Bill Wood and, of course, we all know he had to be drafted to work with them. That answers Mrs Grassby's petulant claims.
The other point I wanted to make in this debate was to respond to an empty suggestion from the Leader of the Opposition about the Rally deserting its claims. She talked about the Rally breaching its policies. She did not enumerate any of the alleged breaches, except the Royal Canberra Hospital site.
The Leader of the Opposition talked about development approvals given. Well, since she is so well versed in the public service, perhaps she could tell me, because I do not know of any. Those empty words required me to go out
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