Page 5341 - Week 17 - Thursday, 13 December 1990
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the floor of the house, generate and I think that what they have done throughout the whole year has contributed greatly to the successful year of the Assembly. I think that what they have done in the last three or four days is probably above and beyond the call of duty, considering the amount of work that they have had to do to bring this Assembly to its successful conclusion tonight.
Mr Speaker, you mentioned others, and I share your feelings about those people - the other support staff in this building. I also would like to comment on the press gallery. I believe that they generally present the Assembly in a fair way. Some of us do not like what they say from time to time, because perhaps they attack our sensitivities and our vices and our prejudices. So we do not always like it, but I believe it is fair to say that, generally speaking, the press gallery does a fair and reasonable job of reporting the proceedings and other matters related to the Assembly.
I trust that, just as I am going to recharge my batteries, the other members will do the same; and that the staff and the press gallery are also able to do the same, and we can come back with renewed enthusiasm for another hard and fun year next year.
Alliance Government : Valedictory
MRS GRASSBY (12.54 am): Mr Speaker, we find ourselves in the dying moments of this sitting of this Assembly of 1990 - and I am hoping that I will make the Cherry Ripe, but never mind. I wish I could say that I feel content with the progress the Assembly has made this year, but I cannot. We are leaving tonight in the knowledge that Mr Collaery will become Acting Chief Minister and Mr Duby will become Acting Deputy Chief Minister. The thought of this would stop Snow White from waking up forever, I am quite sure. Two of the dwarfs will be on holidays and two of them will be looking after the mine and the apple factory. Who needs a wicked stepmother! Mr Collaery has already shown his power today, as Mr Tough Guy, with the supported accommodation assistance program.
The ministerial advisory committee has been seeking an appointment with him, but has been told to speak to one of the bureaucrats. They believed that they were ministerial advisers, and have again asked to speak to Mr Collaery, but the answer was no. The ultimatum came down from high, "Speak to Ken Horsham or you will be dismissed". I have it on good advice that they will only see Mr Collaery, and consequently we will have no ministerial advisory committee after tomorrow.
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