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my more considered view, as a journal reflecting the viewpoints of the Citizens Electoral Council than having any linkage with the League of Rights. I understand that the New Citizen is not deposited in the National Library as is required by law, and research into the actual origin of that journal was not aided by that problem.
MR STEVENSON: I ask a supplementary question, Mr Speaker. Is the Attorney-General aware that he has received further incorrect information with regard to the registration of the New Citizen with the National Library, that the ISSN number of the New Citizen with the National Library is 1034/7720, that that particular registration has been valid for over 12 months, and that the National Library has forwarded a letter to the New Citizen editor indicating that indeed it did receive its January-February 1990 issue?
MR COLLAERY: All I can say in relation to that matter is that a researcher was sent to the National Library, spent a day there in researching and found that there is a journal called the New Citizen. It originates in early settler migrant days and it is called the New Citizen. I am not sure whether that is the journal that Mr Stevenson is referring to.
Mr Stevenson: No.
MR COLLAERY: If it is not, then I stand corrected and indeed apologise for any suggestion to the editor of the New Citizen that the paper had not been lodged as required by law. But I can assure Mr Stevenson that a competent, professional researcher was sent to the National Library by my office for the day to try to research that and our advice at the time was that it is not registered.
MR KAINE: I request that any further questions be placed on the notice paper.
RESIGNATION OF MR WHALAN
MR WHALAN, by leave: As the first member of the Assembly to resign, I thought this might provide me with an opportunity to spend a little time reflecting upon our joint experience here in this place and to examine some of the events leading up to the first election, in March 1989. I find it quite an interesting coincidence that the select committee report on self-government should coincide with my final speech in the Assembly.
Mr Jensen: It was a coincidence, Paul.
MR WHALAN: It was a coincidence, Norman assures me. This report is the latest in a long succession of reports on this issue. Having over the years read most of those reports, I can tell you that they all have something in common, and that is an early chapter which describes the
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