Page 1714 - Week 06 - Tuesday, 30 April 1991
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am certain everyone else, I again thank those officers who put in more than their paid time, I am sure, to get law reform up and running in this Territory and to provide competent secretarial assistance and research help to the committee.
Mr Speaker, I think that this debate has been a non-fractious debate. It is certainly good to see that happen in this Assembly and I think it puts a good stamp on law reform. I am very confident that, whether we disagree or not on the products of the committee from time to time, the debates will be, I hope, as informed as the debate has been tonight. I thank members and commend this last Bill to this house.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Bill agreed to in principle.
Leave granted to dispense with the detail stage.
Bill agreed to.
ADJOURNMENT
New South Wales Attorney-General
MR COLLAERY (Attorney-General) (9.40): I move:
That the Assembly do now adjourn.
I propose to take advantage of my opportunity to speak. I was denied the courtesy, as you will recall, so I think I will set a different standard now and I will speak first.
I want to record tonight, in just a few brief words, the resignation of my colleague the New South Wales Attorney-General, John Dowd.
Ms Follett: I thought you were talking about Dr Kinloch.
MR COLLAERY: I will record that, too, if you like; but I will deal with Mr Dowd first. I want to publicly record the assistance Mr Dowd gave me from shortly after the time I became Attorney-General in this Government. Mr Dowd went out of his way to assist me to understand the processes of the Standing Committee of Attorneys-General. He was kind enough to provide me with a few other insights into the balance of play in that committee. He is a person whom I have known beyond and before that role, of course, and I want to record in personum the great debt that I believe the country owes to a man as illustrious as Mr Dowd.
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