Page 1646 - Week 07 - Tuesday, 29 May 1990
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Mr Berry: Just get on with managing the place instead of whingeing about what other people do.
MR KAINE: That is exactly what we are on about, Mr Speaker, but of course the members of the Opposition do not like that. We are showing what they could have done if they had chosen to a year ago. They ignored the problem; they set it aside. Mr Berry could not even figure out how to go about fixing the hospitals. That was all too hard and he simply hoped that it would go away. It did not go away. We are dealing with the problem that you did not have the intestinal fortitude to deal with, Mr Berry, and that fact will not go away either. I suggest that, if you have got any sensitivity at all to the needs of this community, you will be talking to your representatives at the Federal level, as I will be talking, to get them to persuade their Government and yours to change their approach and treat the Territory fairly.
Conduct of Member
MR CONNOLLY: Mr Speaker, my question is directed to you. Did Mr Stevenson give you an assurance that he had never lived in his Legislative Assembly office, and did you later discover - - -
Mr Stevenson: Well timed.
MR CONNOLLY: I am glad to see that Mr Stevenson has returned. Did you later discover that this assurance was not correct?
MR SPEAKER: I would like to point out that I requested Mr Stevenson to advise me whether he was living in the Assembly. My choice of words there, on reflection, was not one I would have used. Mr Stevenson replied to me that, no, he was not. Unfortunately my wording was such that he was not, in fact, lying to me, but he misled me by omission, and I took objection to that. I raised that with Mr Stevenson formally on paper. Mr Stevenson acknowledged that he had, in fact, lived in the Assembly at some previous time and he apologised to me for that issue.
School Consolidations
MR WOOD: I direct a question to the Minister for Health, Education and the Arts. Mr Humphries, how much money do you want to save in the education budget?
MR HUMPHRIES: I am astonished by the lack of permeability on the part of the members of the Opposition to the often repeated explanation of that very question that I have given to them or in their presence. I suppose I should
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