Page 4819 - Week 16 - Thursday, 29 November 1990
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MR SPEAKER: All right, please proceed; but it sounds to me as though it is not supplementary.
MR BERRY: When will the Minister accept that cautioning senior nurses, interfering with the sponsorship of the "Bureaucratic Bungle Benefit" concert and the sorts of things that have gone on with these eight senior doctors demonstrate that there is some interference with public debate on this issue?
MR SPEAKER: Mr Humphries, I will allow that.
MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Speaker, notwithstanding the irrelevance of much of that supplementary question, I have to emphasise what I think I have said before about these matters: nothing improper occurred on any of those occasions. In every situation that Mr Berry has referred to, the nub of the matter is the heat that he himself has put on those matters by misrepresenting the situation. I recall hearing him on radio this morning or yesterday saying that we were on record as saying or as proving that undue pressure was placed on KIX 106. The entire substance of Mr Berry's question depends on the slant or interpretation that he himself has placed on these events. I repeat my challenge of yesterday to him: if he considers that improper pressure has been placed on anybody, let him produce that person and say what that pressure was. Until he does so, his claims - - -
Mr Berry: Deny it!
MR HUMPHRIES: I deny it; I deny it completely. There is no such pressure; there has been no such pressure.
Mr Berry: This is a terror campaign, and you know it.
MR HUMPHRIES: I challenge Mr Berry to produce his evidence.
Recycling Innovations
MRS NOLAN: Mr Speaker, my question is to Mr Duby in his capacity as Minister for Urban Services. Can the Minister advise the Assembly of recent innovations, involving the Alliance Government, to promote recycling in the ACT?
MR DUBY: I thank Mrs Nolan for the question. I am just trying to look for the answer here. Could you repeat the gist of the question? I could not quite hear you.
MRS NOLAN: Can the Minister tell the Assembly of any recent innovations, involving the Alliance Government, to promote recycling in the ACT?
MR DUBY: I must admit that I did not quite hear what Mrs Nolan had said. Yes, there have been recent innovations
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