Page 4764 - Week 15 - Wednesday, 7 December 1994
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Mr Berry: Answer the question. Have you been running this business out of your office?
MADAM SPEAKER: It is not question time. Ignore him, Mr Stevenson.
MR STEVENSON: I am always happy for someone to ask a question by way of interjection. There have been many times throughout the last three years that I have not gone to places to speak because of Assembly commitments. I have always maintained that, if I were ever asked to speak during a weekend in Canberra, I would be here to do so. However, when I was not required to do so, and someone asked me to speak somewhere else or to run a course, I have done so. As I said, it is a delight; it is something that I love to do - to share a few ideas with people; to have a bit of fun; to share some lightness and humour, if you like. Sometimes when things are pretty black, you need to talk. I spoke to a group of farmers in Perth not so long ago, and we had a good time. By the end of the day, they felt a lot lighter after we had shared some things. I get quite a lot of opportunities to chat; and that is what I look forward to doing for a long time in the future.
Mr David Smyth
MS ELLIS (6.57): Madam Speaker, I also want to talk about the question of serving, but on a quite different level. Some members of this Assembly will know quite well a young man called David Smyth, who has served the Tuggeranong community extremely well for over four years through his work at the Valley View. I have not always agreed with things that he may have said or with things that the paper reported, but it is important to take this opportunity to compliment Mr Smyth for the way in which he immersed himself totally in that community. I saw him at more functions in Tuggeranong than I saw some of my political colleagues from the other side. He certainly got to know the community very well. He represented them extremely well. Last week he finished with the Valley View and moved on to a new career. I want to compliment him for the work that he did and for the manner in which he went about it. As I said, I did not always necessarily agree with everything that he wrote in the paper, but I must congratulate him on the way that he applied himself to that community and on the way that he attempted always to represent the wide variety of views, concerns and attitudes that have developed within the Tuggeranong community. I will miss him personally because it was always a joy to see David at different functions. I wish him every success in what he is seeking to achieve in his new career.
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