Page 487 - Week 02 - Thursday, 3 March 1994
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Mr Berry: Can we have that again?
MR HUMPHRIES: You have to pay attention, Wayne.
MR WOOD: Madam Speaker, Mr Humphries is often wrong and he is wrong on this occasion. This is a matter in which I am very interested and I am happy to answer his question, but the question he is asking is primarily one for my colleague Mr Connolly. Mr Connolly might add to the points that I make. Mr Humphries, you will get two answers, just to put you on the right track as to where your question should be directed.
Mr Humphries: It will be the first two for today.
MR WOOD: You sounded very knowledgeable, but the basis of the question was wrong.
Mr Berry: The old web of deception again. Gary, the big spinner.
MR WOOD: Madam Speaker, I have seen some of the "damage" at the ANCA Studios. I am not sure that it could be - - -
Mr Humphries: We cannot compete with you on that score, Wayne. At least we do not tell lies.
MADAM SPEAKER: That was a generalised comment, I hope, Mr Humphries.
Mr Humphries: Absolutely.
MADAM SPEAKER: Carry on, Mr Wood.
MR WOOD: Madam Speaker, I am not sure whether the "damage", such as it is, at the ANCA Studios could be categorised as structural damage or not. Madam Speaker, in respect of the Childers Street theatre, the Street Theatre, serious efforts have been made by Mr Connolly to get that back into operation, back into the building phase, so that the artists can get into it.
Mr Humphries: Where am I wrong?
MR WOOD: You are wrong from the start, so do not keep interjecting. As to questions about the structure of the building, I defer to my colleague Mr Connolly, who may have something to say. You may get reports, in due course.
MR CONNOLLY: Madam Speaker, we will do a double act and make sure that Mr Humphries is at least more fully informed, if not wiser. We are working very hard to get the Childers Street project back to the construction stage. When Pedashenko went broke - there is nothing that a government can do to prevent a head contractor going broke, with the best of checks and intentions - they left some 30 subcontractors unpaid. Since April the ACT Government had been aware that Pedashenko was getting into problems and had been paying contractors direct. We have got to a situation where we have reached agreement.
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