Page 4121 - Week 15 - Thursday, 17 December 1992
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Madam Speaker, I have also discovered a little bit of an insider's secret in relation to our Assembly personnel, and that is a quite lengthy and large document located in the anteroom behind Madam Speaker's chair. That document is entitled "Brecht's Practice". I was intrigued by the title and I perused the document at some length. It details the enormous number of tasks that are the responsibility of the senior staff in the chamber, responsibility for tasks which may not always be totally apparent to us because we take them for granted. I can assure members that it is a very lengthy document and on the basis of the duties in that document rests the whole operation of this Assembly.
I would like to congratulate Jeff very warmly on the discharge of his duties in this chamber and wish him all the very best in his retirement. Like Mr Kaine, I hope that I might have the pleasure of seeing Jeff around even though he has retired. I know, of course, that this kind of work does get into your blood. It is very difficult indeed to tear yourself away, even though your formal duties might have concluded. So, a happy retirement to Jeff, and I do look forward to seeing him around from time to time, not every day perhaps, in the course of that happy retirement.
Valedictory
MR MOORE (4.14): Madam Speaker, in the adjournment debate today, apart from wishing people a merry Christmas and a happy New Year, I thought I would issue some awards. I went through and found the appropriate awards.
Mr Connolly: That is Gary's job.
MR MOORE: Mr Humphries is going to do it in a different way; I checked that. I thought I would start with the Chief Minister, Ms Follett, who ought to get the Margaret Thatcher award for radicalism. Mr Berry should get the Joh Bjelke-Petersen award for evasion tactics. Mr Connolly, I think appropriately, should get the Red Adair award for fire fighting, and Mr Wood, the Winnie the Pooh award for the protection of furry animals.
For you, Madam Speaker, there is the Henry Kissinger award for mediation; for Ms Ellis, the Edna Everidge award for the Tuggeranong possums; for Mr Lamont, the Gaddafi award for negotiation; for Mrs Grassby, the Russ Hinze award for tact and diplomacy; for Mr Kaine, the Arnold Schwarzenegger award for subtlety; for Mr De Domenico, the Wizard of Id award for democracy; for Mr Cornwell, the Richard Nixon award for access and equity; for Mr Humphries, the Michelangelo award for sculpting prominent figures; for Mrs Carnell, the Coco Chanel award for slumming it; for Mr Westende, the Christopher Skase award for business development; for Ms Szuty, the Pixie-Anne Wheatley award for in-depth research; and for Mr Stevenson, the Fred Nile award for existentialism. I thought it would be inappropriate to give all these awards without taking one for myself, Madam Speaker. Having moved around a little in today's Assembly meeting, I thought it would be appropriate that I take the Marx Brothers award for fancy footwork.
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