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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1999 Week 8 Hansard (26 August) . . Page.. 2566 ..
MR OSBORNE (continuing):
"Whatever you do, please don't let Wayne Berry be Health Minister again". I take that to be a good sign. I was at this friend's house last night. In view of all the stories about the VMOs being paid too much and being greedy, I need to put on the record that I was at his house last night and went to his bathroom to wash my hands. I went to turn on the taps and his tap handles were made out of diamonds. He claimed that they were plastic, but I can honestly say that one VMO in Canberra has diamond tap handles. So those rumours that Mr Berry was spreading were true. He had a pool out the back, and I am told there are two or three tennis courts.
There is one thing I want to read out from today's Canberra Times. I will not comment on it, I will just read it. It is a story from Johannesburg, Mr Speaker. It says:
South African Nicklass Amsterdam celebrated his 112th birthday, vowing that a life without sex had worked wonders for him.
"I have never had a woman to give me a headache," Mr Amsterdam, who lives near Johannesburg, said. "That's how I got to live so long."
I have drastically downgraded my personal expectations of my life expectancy after reading that.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
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