Page 3986 - Week 15 - Wednesday, 16 December 1992
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One difference this year is that there also will be cooperation between the motor vehicle safety engineers and the police. There will be an increase in roadside random checking of the roadworthiness of motor vehicles. In particular, we are looking for bald tyres. Canberra people perhaps work on the assumption that you have to worry about that once a year when it is time to put the car over the pits. Given the peculiar weather that we have been having coming into the Christmas break, wet roads, bald tyres and fatigued drivers are a very hazardous combination. We are putting an emphasis this year not only on the traditional aspects of road safety, such as checking speed and checking alcohol limits in drivers, but also on the physical safety of the vehicles, their roadworthiness. There will be a particular emphasis on bald tyres, defective brakes, and headlights that may not be operating. We are not only having the normal initiative on speed and alcohol, but also checking safety.
Health Budget
MR MOORE: My question is to Mr Berry, the Minister for Health. I think it is time to up the ante a little. Will the Minister provide to the Assembly within 24 hours the same financial information in the same format as he provided to members last year? I refer to the financial information that was provided at meetings of the Board of Health for the months of July 1992, August 1992, September 1992, October 1992 and November 1992.
MR BERRY: Mr Moore is playing a little game here. It is good to see him out in the open at last. I have already told Mr Moore that I was prepared to provide financial figures. I have had one request for additional information, and that came from Mrs Carnell, in a deputation which included Mr Moore, a few minutes before the Assembly sitting on, I think, 18 November.
Mr Moore: Rather than have you mislead the house, I will remind you about a letter from Mrs Carnell and a letter from me.
Mrs Carnell: There were letters from both of us.
MR BERRY: Wait a minute. I have since had a letter from Mrs Carnell which I am in the process of replying to. It has incorrect information in it. I have had a letter from Mr Moore as well. Mrs Carnell claims that at that meeting with me I agreed to supply her with all of the figures that she had asked for, as well as the figures for last September. That is untrue.
Mrs Carnell: That is what I thought you said.
Mr Humphries: I raise a point of order. Madam Speaker, I think you have ruled that saying that a member has made an untrue statement is unparliamentary. I think that is what you have ruled.
MADAM SPEAKER: That is my standard ruling, yes, Mr Humphries. Thank you for bringing it to my attention.
MR BERRY: I withdraw.
MADAM SPEAKER: Thank you, Mr Berry.
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