Page 472 - Week 02 - Thursday, 14 May 1992
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We need to get the economics of it and see whether the community is prepared to take part in the recycling side of it. If it is just an opportunity to dispose of more material to land fill, we would be likely to withdraw from it because we do not want to encourage that. It will happen, we hope, later this year. It will have to be costed and budgeted. All the figures will be put before the Assembly or, in any event, the Estimates Committee, and we will be able to take a close look at it. If it is successful, we can do it throughout the rest of Canberra.
Ms Follett: Madam Speaker, I would ask that further questions be placed on the notice paper.
MADAM SPEAKER: Members, because there are television cameras in here, I would like to suspend the sitting for five minutes to allow their removal.
Sitting suspended from 3.10 to 3.15 pm
PERSONAL EXPLANATIONS
MR KAINE (Leader of the Opposition): Madam Speaker, under standing order 46, I seek leave to make a statement and to table a document.
Leave granted.
MR KAINE: Yesterday a document was tabled in the house by Mr Moore, and some aspects of that were taken up by Mr Berry and others during the debate. The author of that document, in his own defence, has written a letter to Mr Berry - he has provided a copy to me - with his comments in connection with that paper. Since the author's integrity has been questioned in this house, I think he has a right to have his case put to members. Accordingly, I seek the leave of the Assembly to table a copy of his letter to Mr Berry, in explanation of his position.
Mr Moore: And incorporate it in Hansard?
MR KAINE: I am quite happy for it to be incorporated in Hansard; therefore, I seek leave to have that done.
Leave granted.
Document incorporated at Appendix 3.
MR MOORE: Madam Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation, under standing order 46. In that comment the Leader of the Opposition indicated that I tabled a document. In fact, I read from a document and then it was tabled at the will of the Assembly, not through my motivation at all. I think it was inaccurate to say that I tabled the document.
MR BERRY (Minister for Health, Minister for Industrial Relations and Minister for Sport), by leave: I agree with Mr Kaine, that Mr Trebeck, the director of ACIL, has a right to make a statement. He has supplied a letter to me, as Mr Kaine said. I do not know why he sent a copy of the letter to Mr Kaine.
Mr Kaine: Because it relates to a document that was mine; that is why.
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