Page 3012 - Week 10 - Thursday, 15 September 1994
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Mr Berry: On a point of order, Madam Speaker: Questions cannot seek legal advice.
MR DE DOMENICO: I am not asking for any legal advice. As Minister for Industrial Relations, Minister, what industrial relations advice are you prepared to give Mr Durham, who is currently not a member of the union? Would you please give him a ring? I will give you his phone number; it is right here. As Minister for Industrial Relations, will you give him advice as to what you think he should do in order to get the two heavies off his back and to get his truck filled right now, so that he can get his job done?
MR LAMONT: I thank Mr De Domenico for a second opportunity to disabuse him of his ignorance. Madam Speaker, there are recourses available to Mr Durham, or, for that matter, anybody else who may be in the circumstances outlined by Mr De Domenico. The law is there for the specific reason that this Assembly has passed it - - -
Mr De Domenico: What is the law?
MR LAMONT: I would suggest to you, Mr De Domenico, that you listen. There is a great problem with the Opposition, Madam Speaker; you can tell them things and they just appear not to understand. So, I will repeat it. If a person in this Territory is acting contrary to a law of the Territory, then there is a recourse they have available to them. Just because you stand up in this place and say that something is occurring, that, quite frankly, gives me a greater confidence that it probably is not occurring. The simple fact is: If the circumstances as outlined by Mr De Domenico are indeed fact, then I would call upon Mr De Domenico to advise his inquirer as to all of the courses that are available to him and those courses that have been outlined to him by members on his own side, from both the front bench and the back bench. That is simply, Madam Speaker, the answer that I have given for the second time.
Petrol Suppliers - Compensation
MR BERRY: My question is to the Attorney-General in his capacity as the Minister for consumer affairs. I would ask the Minister: Could he inform the Assembly whether he intends to take up that remarkable suggestion of the Leader of the Opposition to give $9m worth of ratepayers' money to the oil companies?
MR CONNOLLY: I was amazed to read in the paper this morning that Mrs Carnell was suggesting that we should be giving $8m to $9m of ratepayers' money - because, after all, that is what the money is - to the oil industry. I read with great interest the Public Accounts Committee recommendations that came down this morning, and I noted a very carefully worded recommendation that we should look at the issue of compensation where there was direct harm - and I think that was underlined - and there was certainly no recommendation of $8m to $9m.
Madam Speaker, let me give some advice to colleagues opposite. You really are going to have to watch this leader of yours because she keeps shooting her mouth off; she just cannot help it. If there is a journalist or a television camera, off she goes. What she has done this morning, of course, Madam Speaker, is to make the counterbudget even sillier.
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