Page 4734 - Week 16 - Wednesday, 28 November 1990
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knowledge. They all regularly sponsor important community events; they regularly and quite generously sponsor those community events, and they do so in a way which I think would be supported by every government in this Territory.
Mr Wood: What is supposed to happen? Do they have to come to you first for the mark of approval?
MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Speaker, may I have some quiet?
MR SPEAKER: I agree, Mr Humphries. Mr Wood, please desist.
MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Speaker, this situation of the sponsorship of that "Save Royal Canberra Hospital" concert was clearly in a different category. It was an event of a kind which was not, in fact, supported by the hospital.
Members interjected.
MR HUMPHRIES: You are using your question time, so carry on. It was clearly not a matter which, under normal circumstances, a radio or television station or any other media outlet in the ACT would support. It was not in the nature of the kind of activities that they normally support because it was a highly political matter. I would suggest to those opposite that they would be less than amused if in government they discovered that people were running campaigns for political parties. That would be just as heinous an intrusion into the principle that community groups do not engage in that kind of activity.
Mr Speaker, in the circumstances, it was entirely appropriate for officers to make sure that KIX 106 was aware of the circumstances of this matter. If those opposite suggest - and they seem to be suggesting this, judging by the sort of snide comments coming from Mr Berry - that there was some improper pressure put on the matter, then I suggest that he go to KIX 106 and get a statutory declaration or an affidavit which clearly indicates what the nature of that pressure was. I would like to see Mr Berry produce that proof of undue pressure, because I can assure the house that it did not occur. If Mr Berry says that it did, let him prove what he says.
Burglaries
MR STEVENSON: My question is to Mr Collaery, and it concerns the recent report by the NRMA of a 9.2 per cent increase in burglaries in the ACT.
Mr Collaery: It was not me.
MR STEVENSON: That was the question: was it you?
Mr Collaery: I did not do it.
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