Page 5191 - Week 17 - Thursday, 13 December 1990
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implementation of the joint party staffing paper recommendations with the union and I expect that process to resolve the outstanding issues.
Mr Berry: Will you endorse the extra five staff?
MR HUMPHRIES: At this stage, no.
Alliance Government
MR BERRY: My question is directed to the Chief Minister and I hope that we can get an answer out of him this time.
Mr Connolly: I doubt it.
MR BERRY: That is probably right too. Does the Chief Minister still believe, as he said in the Assembly on 27 November, that it is absolutely absurd and ludicrous to suggest that public servants are driving this Government's policies?
MR KAINE: Mr Speaker, yes.
MR BERRY: I have a supplementary question. Why then has the Chief Minister not acted to discipline the Deputy Chief Minister, who continues to say that the Minister for Health, Education and the Arts is being driven by his bureaucracy?
MR KAINE: I do not intend to answer a hypothetical question, Mr Speaker.
Belconnen Land Development
MR MOORE: Mr Speaker, my question is to the Chief Minister. I believe it is true that you speak Russian. Is that right? Yes.
Mr Kaine: But I am not going to Russia.
MR MOORE: That will worry Mr Collaery something awful, I can tell you.
I draw the Chief Minister's attention to the preliminary assessment report on the planning and environmental factors of the west Belconnen land development, offered for public comment by the ITPA, and note that at the bottom of page 2 you have been quoted from your budget strategy statement of March this year as saying:
My Government will be acting quickly to address planning and other issues involved so that we can have access to this land.
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