Page 5340 - Week 17 - Thursday, 13 December 1990
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VALEDICTORY
MR SPEAKER: Just before we conclude, as this is our last day of sitting for the year, before the question that the Assembly do now adjourn is proposed, I would like to take a few moments to express my appreciation, as Speaker, to those people who have assisted the Assembly throughout its second calendar year of operation.
I would like to thank you, the members, for the support you have given the Chair during this year. To you and your families, may I sincerely express the greetings of the season. I would like to place on the record the debt the Assembly owes to the Clerks at the table, and their staff, for their dedicated service and sound procedural advice throughout this, at times, turbulent year.
I would be remiss if I did not also mention the staff of the secretariat who, particularly on nights such as this, work back till the wee hours. There is also the staff of the library, who give us valiant service. I also mention the Australian Protective Services staff, who I am sure would all like to be home right now. There are also the officers of the ACT Government Service, who have assisted the operation of the Assembly, and there are also the members of the press gallery.
I take this opportunity to wish all the people mentioned, and any that I may have missed, a safe and happy Christmas and a prosperous new year.
ADJOURNMENT
Motion (by Mr Duby) proposed:
That the Assembly do now adjourn.
Valedictory
MR KAINE (Chief Minister) (12.51 am): I think that I probably created something of a record this year in that I do not recall that I have spoken in the adjournment debate; and I do not usually speak in the adjournment debate because it is usually at the end of a very long day and I believe that it is usually time to get away from the stresses and strains.
But I think this is an occasion when, on behalf of the Government, I should echo your comments, Mr Speaker, and say a few words of thanks to a small band of people who do a great deal to ensure that this Assembly works well. I refer specifically to the Clerk and the staff of the Assembly, and the secretariat of the committees. Their output, of course, is very much a product of what we, on
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