Page 1371 - Week 07 - Thursday, 24 August 1989
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Rally, then so be it for the time being, and I make no apologies for that.
I regret very much that the Chief Minister has, for the first time, I think, stepped out of the bounds of propriety with an inference that this gentleman was involved in tax rorting. In her comments and the comments of Mr Wood, who seems equally emotive on this issue, the use of the word "blackmail" was unfortunate. I think that no-one really in the community wants to see us in the Assembly do other than get the best possible people on the ground assisting us to perform the job in this Assembly, and Mr Stevenson claims to be attempting that. There has been no evidence presented to this Assembly that he has not been doing a good job, I note, Mr Speaker. No-one has asserted that.
Ms Follett: I have.
MR COLLAERY: The Chief Minister says she has asserted that Mr Stevenson has not been doing a good job. Well, one hopes that the Chief Minister can back up those assertions in due course. Mr Speaker, the motion, in both of its parts, is appropriate to pass at this stage, on our submission. When the Government brings forward a Bill, we can reopen these issues, and I hope that we can reopen them without the emotional claptrap that went on around me in this chamber while this went on, from the other side of the house.
MR BERRY (Minister for Community Services and Health) (4.20): I think that the most interesting report of this event will turn up in the media, and it will demonstrate the Liberals and the Residents Rally party contesting the fate of Mr Stevenson to ensure that they have stitched up his vote, as I think Mr Duby properly put it. But what annoys me mostly is the extent to which they are prepared to prostitute themselves to deliver on that.
Mr Moore: I rise on a point of order, Mr Speaker. I would ask Mr Berry to withdraw that comment about prostituting ourselves.
MR SPEAKER: I do not believe that that was really meant in the worst form that you envisage, Mr Moore. It is not a point of order.
Mr Kaine: I would rather have your vote, Wayne, any day.
MR BERRY: Thank you.
Mr Moore: I would like to take that point of order, Mr Speaker. I do object to that word because it implies that in some way we have sold - - -
MR SPEAKER: I have ruled, and that is it.
MR BERRY: I think that the reports that will appear in the media on this issue will demonstrate the extent to which
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