Page 1979 - Week 07 - Thursday, 31 May 1990
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sold all at once. You would not be concerned about flooding the market if you were selling only one or two properties.
The concern of flooding the market presumably could come only from a strategy of massive divestiture of government assets. It is the consistent theme that comes from the reports presented to the Government. Despite our best efforts we cannot get a clear statement, but gradually, bit by bit and slip by slip, the Opposition is being able to draw the picture. We are able to remove the clouds and the fudge that we get through question time and, by these little slips from the Government, we are able to see the clear picture, the clear agenda, which is massive sale of government resources.
Those slips have enabled us to inform those members of the Canberra community who are constantly asking us to get the Government to state its case of what the true agenda is. The true agenda, as we have said, is frightening for the citizens of Canberra and for the public education system.
Death of Capt. Reg Saunders
MR STEFANIAK (4.52): Mr Speaker, about two months ago this house had two motions of condolence for two very well known Australian and Canberra citizens, one of whom was Mr Gordon Yuill, a personal friend of my family. That caused me to look at the House of Representatives Practice on motions of condolence. I noted that, apart from the mention made of members of the House of Representatives in the Senate, the Governor-General, the Prime Minister, and also former prominent senators and members of that house, it also refers to other prominent citizens. For the House of Representatives, at page 351 it states:
From time to time condolence motions may also be moved following the deaths of distinguished Australians, heads of government of Commonwealth countries or foreign countries, and other distinguished persons overseas whose achievements are considered to have some direct relevance to Australia.
Accordingly, I was delighted to see that we have introduced that practice here, Mr Speaker. I felt it was a matter which perhaps your office could follow up, because regrettably there have in recent times been a number of deaths of prominent Canberra citizens. I refer to one prominent Australian and Canberra citizen who died recently and who perhaps could well have been the subject of a condolence motion. I refer to that very well known Australian, former Captain Reg Saunders, the first Aboriginal officer commissioned into the Australian Army.
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