Page 4087 - Week 14 - Wednesday, 24 October 1990
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Mr Speaker, that should clear the air in relation to the Labor Party's policy. Nobody opposite can equal that. It is a clear statement of the Labor Party's policy. Of course, the ACT UP people will not be able to zap Mr Collaery because they will not be able to find a spot to zap him. He zapped himself in both feet this morning.
Mr Jensen: Mr Speaker, in accordance with standing order 213 I request that Mr Berry table those documents from which he was quoting.
MR SPEAKER: Mr Berry, please table them.
Mr Jensen: All of them, Wayne; not just part of them.
MR BERRY: I table the following papers:
School closures -
Speech notes.
ACT Branch of the Australian Labor Party - Education motion for conference.
Mr Nelson Mandela - Visit to Canberra
MR HUMPHRIES (Minister for Health, Education and the Arts) (4.41): Mr Speaker, since we are reopening old debates - it seems to be a favourite pastime - I want to refer briefly to the debate about the granting of the key to the City of Canberra to Mr Nelson Mandela. I note, without comment, a newspaper report on 20 October on the subject of Melbourne's granting of the freedom of the city. The report said:
South African black leader Nelson Mandela has been granted the Freedom of the City of Melbourne - on the vote of an under-attended council meeting.
It made reference to the terms of the motion, which it seemed to me were rather paltry compared with the terms of the generous motion passed by this Assembly. It continued:
Only 16 of the council's 21 members were at the meeting last night.
That is a strange coincidence. That was exactly the same number as were here on that day when that motion was passed here. It went on to say:
At least two, Independents Cr Richard Meldrum and Cr Lyn Hatton, boycotted the meeting, saying Melbourne should keep out of international politics.
Another two councillors are in Leningrad on council business.
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