Page 1943 - Week 10 - Tuesday, 24 October 1989
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That the Assembly takes note of the paper.
Debate (on motion by Mrs Nolan) adjourned.
RESIDENTS RALLY - RESIGNATION
MR MOORE: Mr Speaker, I seek leave to make a brief statement about my new position in the Assembly.
Leave granted.
MR MOORE: I wish to use this opportunity to formally inform the Assembly that the media reports they have been reading, particularly in the Canberra Times, are quite accurate, and it is true to say I have resigned from the Residents Rally and I intend to remain in the Assembly as an independent member.
I will just make a few comments about a meeting of the Residents Rally that took place last night, in which a motion was discussed. After four speakers presented the pro side and four speakers presented the against side to the motion, the motion was gagged. I was one of the major proponents of that motion, but I had not had the opportunity to speak. My three colleagues here from the new Residents Rally, Bernard Collaery, Norm Jensen and Hector Kinloch, supported the gagging of that motion preventing me, and indeed Dr Kinloch himself, from speaking, which I think was a particularly shameful situation.
However, the motion was lost and the direction of the Rally changed, I believe, to make it unacceptable for me to go with it. I think what we will perceive now is a significant shift of the Rally towards the right wing. In future, we may see the Liberals looking a little like socialists on a comparative basis.
But there are some very positive aspects to this. A more relaxed atmosphere, I believe, will occur in the Assembly and in the Residents Rally area, and I take this opportunity to wish my three colleagues from the Residents Rally all the best for the future in the direction they have chosen to go. I do hope they will be able to achieve the aims and objectives that they have now set themselves.
GOVERNMENT LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM
Discussion of Matter of Public Importance
MR SPEAKER: I have received a letter from Mr Humphries proposing that a matter of public importance be submitted to the Assembly for discussion, namely:
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