Page 3488 - Week 12 - Wednesday, 18 September 1991
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Mr Jensen: Prove it. Prove that statement.
MS FOLLETT: I have the Speaker's letter. Mr Deputy Speaker, there is a great deal to be gained from that kind of consultation. There is also, Mr Deputy Speaker, a legitimate use of that facility for other purposes.
Mr Collaery alluded to some happy meetings taking place last night, and that is true. I did use that room last night to put on a very modest function for Treasury officials and others who had worked on the budget, to thank them for their hard work and to express my appreciation of the extraordinarily long hours they had worked and the very good work they had done. I think that is entirely appropriate. I think everybody in this Assembly would agree that the work that has been put in has been of a very high standard indeed and has enabled the budget to go ahead smoothly. It has enabled all of you to have copies of all of the papers.
Mr Collaery: So, can we use it, too?
MS FOLLETT: Mr Deputy Speaker, Mr Collaery interjects and asks whether he could use the room, too. As far as I am concerned, yes. If you wish to make inquiries about when the room is vacant, you can do so. Mr Humphries has used it.
I would be absolutely delighted, Mr Deputy Speaker, if the Hare-Clark Independence Party were to use it, and to use it regularly. Use it regularly; I cannot wait. I really am awaiting with great anxiety their policies and their membership. I really want to see what they are going to do in order to get themselves elected at the next election. I also want to see whether Mr Duby, in setting up the Hare-Clark Independence Party, is going to be able to rope in with him all the other Hare-Clark adherents, like the Liberal Party, the Residents Rally and all the rest of them; whether he has really stolen your thunder and what you are going to do about it. So, if you want to talk about those issues in the fifth floor conference room, believe me, I would be absolutely delighted if you were to use that facility.
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DR KINLOCH (4.22): Mr Deputy Speaker, we are at open go time, are we?
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: Yes, that is right. You have five minutes.
DR KINLOCH: I want to thank the Chief Minister for those comments. We have had a time of frivolity and enjoyment, and I accept her generous offer. I hope that we will all be able to use that room and, indeed, have joint parties in that room of one kind or another.
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