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quote: "The only people who win out of court cases are lawyers".
I note that Mrs Grassby is presently engaged in a $1m law suit with a lawyer in this chamber, and I think that Mrs Grassby's advice is probably very timely. I would certainly suggest that she settle as soon as she possibly can.
Mr Berry: Mr Speaker, I am sure that the discussion of matters which might be before the courts is out of order.
MR SPEAKER: Thank you, Mr Berry, for your observation. The time for the debate has expired.
APPROPRIATION BILL 1990-91
Debate resumed from 13 September 1990, on motion by Mr Kaine:
That this Bill be agreed to in principle.
MR HUMPHRIES (Minister for Health, Education and the Arts) (4.21): Mr Speaker, I get to my feet again. What a pleasure for Mr Berry. I have studied the comments made by Ms Follett in response to the tabling speech of Mr Kaine on the Appropriation Bill. Ms Follett's response was produced last Thursday and I read it with interest because I was keen to see what she, as Leader of the Opposition, could make of a document which represents many months of hard work on the part of this Government. I was flattered by the approach that she took to the budget because, as far as I could tell, what Ms Follett has done in respect of this budget has been to attack the appearance of the budget, the image, if you like, of the budget - an image which she herself has been instrumental in creating. She failed almost completely in the course of her comments to comment on the specifics of the proposals put forward in the budget.
There is very little in her response to the budget that would elicit either a different version or different belief about the way in which the Government is approaching these issues, or for that matter a different vision of the way in which the problems the Territory currently faces should be handled. In this response there is not one word of Labor Party vision for dealing with the problems that we are facing in the Territory at the present time.
Mr Kaine: There was none last year either.
MR HUMPHRIES: There was none last year, as Mr Kaine says, and there is none now. I suspect that if the Territory were unfortunate enough to be blighted with a Labor government until the next election that would be the result at every turn. Of course, Ms Follett has a very easy
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