Page 2031 - Week 07 - Tuesday, 28 May 1991
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Mr Connolly: Maybe do what they have done in Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia.
MR KAINE: Western Australia, did you say? Do not quote me Western Australia. Look at the shambles they have. I think that speaks for itself.
Alliance Government
MS FOLLETT: My question is again to Mr Kaine, the Chief Minister. Mr Kaine, are your Ministers required to publicly support decisions taken by the Cabinet?
MR KAINE: Yes, Mr Speaker.
MS FOLLETT: I have to ask Mr Kaine, Mr Speaker, as a supplementary question: In view of Mr Collaery's recent actions and his threat to resign over a Cabinet decision to which he was a party, what will you do if Mr Collaery fails to support Cabinet's decision on lease renewals in an Assembly vote?
MR KAINE: I do not know about any public threat to resign, but - - -
Mr Berry: You must have been away that day.
MR KAINE: That was probably the day when I had a day off. But I think it is almost an improper question, because the Leader of the Opposition is asking me to express an opinion about a hypothetical event. I do not think I need grace it with an answer.
Hospice Services
MR BERRY: My question is to the Minister for Health, Education and the Arts. Minister, in your announced hospital redevelopment plan there was included an uncosted hospice. In the master development control plan - a lengthy document - there were two uncosted hospices; one at Woden and one at Calvary Hospital. How many hospices will there be, how many beds will there be in each, and how much will it cost?
MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Speaker, the Government is still establishing what kind of hospice service the ACT should be provided with. Mr Berry, of course, is embarrassed because he has realised that the dream of a hospice that many have held in the ACT for many years has finally been realised by this Government, and not by the Government that he was a member of some time ago.
Mr Duby: He had his chance.
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