Page 4588 - Week 15 - Tuesday, 14 December 1993
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ADJOURNMENT
Motion (by Mr Berry) proposed:
That the Assembly do now adjourn.
Member's Clothing
MR KAINE (9.52): Members will know that I very rarely avail myself of the opportunity to speak in the adjournment debate. I do so only when something cataclysmic occurs or when there is something of grave social importance that I wish to comment upon. From time to time when working in this Assembly I am struck by some of the extraordinary characteristics of some of the people that I work with.
Mr Lamont: This is not Thursday. You are supposed to do this on Thursday.
MR KAINE: You just wait patiently, Mr Lamont. For example, I am often struck by the superior knowledge that Mr Stevenson demonstrates about the way the Westminster system works. I sometimes sit confounded as Mr Stevenson speaks on the subject. There are times when I am completely overwhelmed by the erudition shown by Mrs Grassby, and there are times when I become totally speechless at the oratorical powers displayed by Mr Berry. The things that he can do with a word are absolutely unbelievable.
Having said all that, Mr Deputy Speaker, I was thumbing through one of our better known newspapers yesterday and I came across an article that demonstrated to me that we have amongst us one who has yet another extraordinary characteristic. Alongside the article was a photograph. The article talked about somebody being dressed in the flashy manner of the Labor Right, and I thought, "Tony De Domenico for sure". Then I read on. I was wrong the first time; so I kept reading. I thought, "Mr Berry, the latter-day Paul Keating". I kept reading, and to my astonishment I discovered that that was wrong too. Then I began to wonder who this person was, and eventually I had a look at the photograph. Here is this person with the button-down collar, the wide striped tie, the broad-shouldered jacket, the three-button sleeves and cuffs on the trousers. I am a bit old fashioned. I still do not have cuffs on my trousers. There, to my astonishment, was a member of this Assembly that I would never have suspected - Mr David Lamont.
I thought it would be unreasonable, Mr Deputy Speaker, for this event to go unrecorded, except in the fading columns of the Canberra Weekly. You put these things in the files and they fade over the years. So, Mr Deputy Speaker, with the approval of the Assembly, I would like to incorporate in Hansard this extraordinary personality amongst us who is truly a paragon of sartorial elegance.
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