Page 4763 - Week 15 - Thursday, 16 December 1993
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(Extension of time granted) My son, who helped me with these song titles last night, considered Eight days a week to be appropriate as a reflection of my workload. I think that says it all. Mr Westende: Mr Businessman seemed appropriate in 1992. This year I desperately searched for a furniture theme to reflect Mr Westende's devotion to Instant Office Furniture commemorated on a Christmas card he recently sent me. The only line that comes to mind from Beautiful people goes, "The garden's full of furniture, the house is full of plants". Finally, Madam Speaker, Mr Wood. At this time in 1992 I was thinking of Alice Cooper's School's out. This year an even more appropriate theme comes to mind. Mr Wood will be 80 teaching positions better off in 1994, and Teacher, I need you by Elton John seems fitting.
MADAM SPEAKER: I rather wish that Sounds of Silence had featured, but I might reserve that for next year.
Valedictory
MR MOORE (4.53): I thought I would finish the season this year, Madam Speaker, with a little alliteration, combined with a couple of well-known one-liners from members and Ministers. For Speaker McRae, a magistral mainbrace that manages the manic and machinating members. Follett, a fermenting finance finagling figure of flare and foggy factions. Her one-liner is, "It is just the same, only different". For Berry, a bugle blowing bloke beset with bedside battles and boxing bouts, the one-liner is, "Don't you worry about that". For Connolly, a cajoling cagey caliph with calamitous consumer and constable concerns, "What the Opposition always fails to realise is ...". For Wood, a warden of weeds, waterways and waifs who have well-founded worries, "Let me make myself absolutely clear".
For Carnell, a contentious chemist with categorical claims of cardiac cases and casualty causes, "Why don't you answer the question?". That is the end of the one-liners, Madam Speaker, so I will just stick to the alliteration. For De Domenico, a diatribic deputy determined to defend development, deter deviates and derail departments. For Humphries, a heuristic hidalgo with humanistic, high-flown, highbrow hallucinations.
Mr Humphries: What?
MR MOORE: I can give it to you in writing so that you can look it up. For Cornwell, a community conscious colonel who consistently coerces in corridors. For Kaine, a contrite conveyor of clarigates with a kaleidoscopic career. Westende, a wily wanderer of wondrous and wonderful witticisms. For Lamont, a loquacious, left aligned laconic with leanings towards lion liberation and lateral lobbying. Ellis, an enigmatic emissary with encouraging edible entities, particularly jelly babies.
Mr Humphries: Edible entities. We never knew about that.
Mr Stevenson: You could take a point of order in case.
Mr De Domenico: In case what?
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