Page 3622 - Week 13 - Tuesday, 16 October 1990
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Ministerial Travel Expenditure
MR BERRY: My question is directed to the Chief Minister, and I ask this question bearing in mind the statement that the Chief Minister made that Ministers have the responsibility of spending their own travel money. Mr Chief Minister, how do you respond to comments that a Minister spending $17,000 on travel would lower that Minister in the estimation of right thinking members of society or expose him to hatred, contempt or ridicule?
MR KAINE: Mr Speaker, I do not respond to the comment at all. I do not know who made it and I am not commenting on unsubstantiated and unattributed comments.
MR BERRY: I ask a supplementary question, Mr Speaker. Why then would an ACT Minister claim to be defamed by somebody incorrectly stating that he had spent $17,000 on travel?
MR KAINE: That calls for a matter of opinion and I do not intend to comment on it, Mr Speaker.
60 Minutes Program
MS FOLLETT: Mr Speaker, my question is also addressed to Mr Kaine, and it refers to the recent 60 Minutes program on the ACT Government. I would like to ask Mr Kaine - - -
Mr Collaery: On the ACT Assembly.
Mr Duby: Let us get it right.
Mrs Grassby: Listen to them being so pedantic across there.
MR SPEAKER: Order!
Mr Moore: Why did they leave you out of it?
Mr Wood: Well, we did not get a rubbish.
Mr Kaine: No, because none of you would confront the cameras; you were all too scared.
Ms Maher: You were included in it.
Dr Kinloch: It was a disgraceful program.
Mr Kaine: All chicken.
MR SPEAKER: Please, Chief Minister!
Dr Kinloch: And Richard Carleton should be ashamed of himself.
Mrs Grassby: A voice from the deep.
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