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Infrastructure and the Standing Committee on Administration and Procedures.
This motion relates to Labor membership of standing committees. It arises from our changed membership on this side of the house. Briefly, it makes appropriate arrangements for Mr Connolly to be our member on the Standing Committee on Scrutiny of Bills and Subordinate Legislation and the Standing Committee on Legal Affairs and for Mr Berry to take Mr Whalan's place on the Standing Committee on Planning, Development and Infrastructure and the Standing Committee on Administration and Procedures. Mr Speaker, I will not take up the time of the house by speaking on the matter. I commend the motion.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Sitting suspended from 5.10 to 8.00 pm.
BUDGET STRATEGY STATEMENT
Ministerial Statement and Papers
Debate resumed from 3 April 1990, on motion by Mr Kaine:
That the Assembly takes note of the papers.
MR SPEAKER: Before Mr Connolly commences his speech, let me remind members that this is his maiden speech. I note that the convention in other legislatures is that a maiden speech is heard without interjection or interruption. I intend to encourage that convention in the Assembly.
Mr Moore: Inaugural speech, Mr Speaker; surely "inaugural" was the term we had agreed on before.
MR CONNOLLY (8.01): Mr Speaker, I thank you for that call. As my colleagues point out, at the risk of breaching over half a millennium of parliamentary tradition, it may be more appropriate in Canberra in 1990 to refer to an inaugural speech rather than a maiden speech. Be that as it may.
It is an honour for any citizen to be elected to a parliament. It is a particular honour for me as a member of the Australian Labor Party to stand in this place on this day. As our leader, Rosemary Follett, mentioned in her remarks in support of my candidature earlier this afternoon, 1 May - May Day - is a day of deep significance to the Australian Labor movement, both in industrial and parliamentary wings, and indeed to the Labor movement internationally.
I stand here in this parliament today as the newest Labor member of this new parliament but hopefully as part of the tradition of Labor members that reaches back in this country now nearly 100 years. It was in the events of 1890
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