Page 5039 - Week 17 - Tuesday, 11 December 1990
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MR BERRY: There was consensus on the issue that there should be an approach made to the New South Wales Government. If you did not hear it, Mr Duby, you were asleep.
Mr Duby: That is not true, Wayne. The forum accepted no such thing.
MR SPEAKER: Order!
MR BERRY: There was consensus. If the record does not show that, then the record is not being kept accurately. The fact of the matter is that the forum, by consensus, accepted that there should be an approach to the New South Wales Government - - -
Mr Duby: And the Commonwealth Government.
MR BERRY: And the Commonwealth Government. Of course, what has happened is that Mr Kaine has been involved with those people across the border who tend to shift the focus off the people who should be wearing the blame for the condition of that highway. They will continue to be blamed for it and will wear it appropriately - Mr Greiner and his crew and, in particular, Mr Murray.
Consultative Forum
MR COLLAERY (Attorney-General) (12.18 am), in reply: I rise to close the adjournment debate and, briefly, to agree totally with Mr Berry. We did reach consensus on one issue, the lunch. It certainly did not appear as if Mr Berry had anything caught in his throat. It was a good meeting. One thing that I should say is that I assume that the Opposition support the post-self-government move towards regionalisation in our region. Mr Berry well knows that there were some very weighty, imaginative and good proposals put forward for regional work together with the people in our region - not the politics necessarily; the people in our region. That was the real issue. I welcome and applaud it.
I was very proud to see the Chief Minister of the Territory chairing that meeting, because we have often been seen to be the small cousin in this relationship. We chaired that meeting. It was excellent to see my colleague, Trevor Kaine, chairing it. Regardless of politics, I am sure Mr Berry agrees that there were very worthwhile initiatives pursued at that meeting. Mr Berry does not want to hear this because he does not give me bouquets; but certainly that was an excellent meeting and a very good outcome.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Assembly adjourned at 12.19 am (Wednesday)
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