Page 659 - Week 05 - Tuesday, 4 July 1989

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Residents Rally

MR MOORE (9.56): Taking that another step further, I would like to draw attention to a situation where the public is being misled and where this Assembly could well be misled, too. The Deputy Chief Minister, Mr Speaker, referred on Wednesday last week to the Residents Rally having endorsed candidates. On that day Dr Kinloch stood and said:

I can assure you that there has been no endorsement of any candidate for any of the seats in the House of Representatives...we have made no decision on that whatever.

Yet today in a public meeting the Deputy Chief Minister, having been assured of that, misled the public into believing that we have an endorsed candidate. Let me put this to rest once and for all. At this stage there has been no preselection of any candidate for any Federal seat by the Residents Rally. When it is done it will be done in accordance with our constitution by our selection committee. It has not been done at this stage. We do not have any candidate whatsoever preselected for any Federal seat at all.

We would appreciate, therefore, members of this Assembly not misleading the public by suggesting that any of our members have been preselected. When that happens it will be done by a fair and appropriate procedure in accordance with our constitution. Should the Deputy Chief Minister wish to run for the Residents Rally, he would indeed be able to approach that selection committee to do so.

Question resolved in the affirmative.

Assembly adjourned at 9.58 pm

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