Page 2292 - Week 11 - Wednesday, 1 November 1989
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the most pathetic piece of evidence presented to this Assembly by a lawyer who should have known better, from his corruption file.
Let me tell you about that corruption file. That corruption file is full of newspaper clippings, with a couple of letters. That is the corruption file that this man has got.
Mr Collaery: You have never seen it. We never trusted you with it. Right?
MR MOORE: Deny it.
Mr Collaery: You have never seen it, Michael.
MR MOORE: This is the same person that Mr Jensen yesterday referred to as Genghis Khan.
Mr Jensen: No, I did not.
MR MOORE: His boss.
Mr Jensen: I was talking about my old boss, Michael - my old boss, Brigadier Colin Kahn, affectionately known as "Genghis".
MR MOORE: I had to sort out this kind of personality battle, which seems to be the earmark of Mr Collaery's approach to politics and to most of the things he does, and the issues. Having sorted that out, my first approach to Mr Da Deppo was to distance myself from any personalities. Mr Da Deppo is here, and I am sure he would confirm that my first approach, before the committee took on this inquiry, was to say to him, "I've never met you. I have nothing to do with judgments about corruption. That's not my scene and I don't intend to pursue it".
So I move to the issues. The first of the issues was the planning procedure - the direct sale of the site, the recommendation of the fish farm aquarium by the Canberra Development Board and by Ros Kelly on 29 August 1986, and then the following planning procedures. As Mr Wood said, after an exhaustive look at those files, I could not find anything that was not done in order, and that is why I am happy to support the statements, to which Mr Wood drew attention time and again, that we have seen no evidence of anything that could be construed in any way as corrupt.
Mr Collaery: Why did you raise it?
MR MOORE: I will continue on to the issues because I did not raise this matter on personalities; I raised it on issues. Recommendation 3 takes into account possible problems in terms of a principle about how things are sold, and that recommendation is that the Government review the past policy of directly negotiating with developers the sale of sites for one-off tourist attractions.
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