Page 2359 - Week 11 - Wednesday, 1 November 1989
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MR MOORE (5.52): Mr Speaker, I have checked through my press release. I do not see that it has anything to do with integrity or objectivity. It certainly has to do with promises and broken promises. It certainly has to do with comparisons, and the inference referred to by Mr Duby is a comparison with the Government's view.
Comments about the spelling mistakes and so forth have to do with the fact that, whilst other people have computers, I have a typewriter and I thought it was more important in this case to get the media release out. I now have a computer and it is actually going, as of yesterday; it just does not have a printer. It is rather difficult to put a press release out with a computer and no printer. So to a certain extent I still have my hands tied.
It is very interesting that I should find myself being defended by Mr Whalan. Some very great ironies occur in this house. Although in a previous life I often found it disturbing to hear the Deputy Chief Minister refer to "the Residents Rally party", I have to acknowledge the far-sightedness of his observation. It may be purely coincidental, but the initials of the Residents Rally party, RRP, happen to be the same as those for recommended retail price, a term most shoppers are familiar with. With the Rally's performance of late, I wonder just what that price is.
Mr Kaine: Mr Speaker, I have to take a point of order. Whether the present speaker acknowledges it or not, this debate is about his questioning of the integrity of members of this Assembly. He is still doing that in the course of this debate; he is continuing to question the integrity of members of this Assembly. I think it is time to put a stop to it, Mr Speaker.
MR SPEAKER: Thank you, Mr Kaine. Please direct your statements to the motion, Mr Moore.
MR MOORE: Certainly, Mr Speaker. Let us look at the motion. The first part says that this Assembly has complete confidence in the independence of the members of the Standing Committee on Planning, Development and Infrastructure in their deliberations and report on the Canberra Times redevelopment reference.
Certainly, Mr Speaker, I am quite happy to support that part of the motion. However, the second part is another story entirely. I have a great deal of difficulty understanding why members of the Assembly have chosen to support the clear paranoia of one of its number. I shall not address that particular person. If they continue to do so, I wonder whether it will bring them into even more disrepute.
Let me state, Mr Speaker, that I have not made one single comment about the Canberra Times site from the day I debated
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