Page 4045 - Week 14 - Wednesday, 24 October 1990
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MR SPEAKER: Order! As the time for private members' business has expired, the debate is interrupted in accordance with standing order 77 as amended by temporary order.
Sitting suspended from 12.28 to 2.30 pm
QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE
Community Facilities
MS FOLLETT: Mr Speaker, my question is to the Minister for Urban Services, Mr Duby, and my question is - - -
MR SPEAKER: Order! Chief Minister, would you like to direct that question to any of the other Ministers in his absence?
Mr Kaine: I am sorry; I was not aware that the Minister was not present, Mr Speaker. If the Leader of the Opposition cares to hold back the question, he may appear. If not, I will take the question.
MR SPEAKER: Thank you. He is outside being interviewed, I believe. Would you like to defer to another member, Ms Follett?
MS FOLLETT: Yes, all right.
Bankruptcies
MR CONNOLLY: My question is to the Chief Minister and it relates to bankruptcies. I refer to your statement yesterday that it was "totally wrong and not based in fact" to say that there had been a 63 per cent increase in bankruptcies in the ACT, and the assertion by the Registrar in Bankruptcy that those figures were absolutely correct. Do you stand by your assertion of yesterday or will we see another humiliating withdrawal?
MR KAINE: No, we will not see any sort of withdrawal, humiliating or otherwise. I stand absolutely behind the comments I made yesterday in response to a similar question. It is my firm and committed view that on two occasions now the Canberra Times has given an unnecessarily alarmist view on figures on bankruptcy in the ACT. Mr Speaker, I do not intend to get into a debate on the figures. I think, however, that the members of the Opposition may well ask the Registrar, despite what was on the front page of the Canberra Times this morning, whether he is satisfied with the way that the Canberra Times has handled the information. I think you will find that he is not and is as equally concerned about the treatment of the figures
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