Page 1618 - Week 08 - Thursday, 28 September 1989
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MR SPEAKER: Please proceed, Mr Moore.
Mr Moore: If he just sat down, Mr Speaker, I would make my point of order very quickly. Mr Whalan is reflecting on the debate of yesterday and the decision of this Assembly.
MR SPEAKER: That objection is overruled. Please proceed, Deputy Chief Minister.
MR WHALAN: Thank you, Mr Speaker. It is just so typical of their attempts. They applied the gag yesterday; they deny me time by taking these facetious points of order. This is so typical of their attitude toward free debate and democracy. Continuing to interject and interrupt the flow of the discussion is so typical of their tactics, Mr Speaker.
Mr Jensen: We presume you are going to be quiet in future, are you?
MR WHALAN: But let us get it straight for once, Norman. Your party claimed to be the great party of the community, the great party of consultation, yet you denied the opportunity for consultation that was given to you yesterday. You denied it twice, and here you have the hide and the hypocrisy to come here again today and seek to raise it.
I put it to you, members of the Residents Rally party, that you have the opportunity to redeem yourselves. Support this level playing field motion. This has been in place for 25 years. An extra few months is going to make no difference whatsoever, yet will provide an opportunity for open and objective discussion on this vitally important matter.
MR COLLAERY (12.25): We have heard at length from the Reverend Paul Whalan. We will seek to redeem ourselves on a number of issues, and no doubt in his great, new, charitable frame of mind he will be redeeming himself on other issues. I do not suppose the press has always been good for Mr Whalan.
Mr Whalan: Certainly not the lies that you have perpetrated, Bernard.
MR SPEAKER: Order! I request the Deputy Chief Minister to withdraw that remark calling Mr Collaery's statements lies.
Mr Whalan: I would never call Mr Collaery a liar.
MR SPEAKER: No; you said his statements were lies.
Mr Whalan: If he thought he heard that, I withdraw it, Mr Speaker.
MR SPEAKER: Thank you, Deputy Chief Minister. Please proceed, Mr Collaery?
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