Page 2360 - Week 11 - Wednesday, 1 November 1989
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this issue with vigour in the Assembly until this report was brought down. I have not made one single comment, and that indicates my attitude to the committee. If I disagree with a committee when it brings its comment down, by golly, I will say so. And if I disagree strongly, I will let people know because that is my responsibility. Each member of the Assembly should have that same responsibility. If members support this motion, then they are backing down. They are not going to be able to say anything about the findings of any committee. When any members of the Assembly fail to keep their promises, as the Residents Rally and Bernard Collaery have done, then are other members going to sit back and say nothing? Of course that is not the case.
I am a little disturbed that some other members of the committee have read into my press release an inference that does not exist. I am not concerned about Mr Collaery's psychological projectionism, because that is a problem that he will have to deal with himself.
I draw attention to the findings of the casino committee. Did Dr Kinloch accept the findings of that committee? When Mr Jensen wrote his dissenting report - and this is in my media release - he stated clearly and categorically what his view was and why. By doing that he still managed to keep his promise to the people who had elected him. That is the sort of thing we are dealing with now. We are talking about the freedom of people to keep their promises, to make their own statements and to present clearly to the people of Canberra their views on certain issues. That is what I am intending to do and that is what I will continue to do while I am a member of this Assembly.
I will stay a member of this Assembly, remembering of course that any suggestions that have been made by my colleagues Mr Collaery and Mr Kaine that I might resign would mean that my position could be turned back to one of Mr Collaery's cronies. This, of course, would then provide the opportunity for Mr Collaery and Mr Kaine to rapidly take themselves into government and get that power which is so critical to them.
MR DUBY (5.58), in reply: As there are no more speakers, I shall finish off the debate on this motion. Mr Moore said that he regarded his media release as merely a political statement and that he could not see how it reflected in any way on the independence of the committee members. I will repeat what the release says. It says that the committee's report has told the Follett Government exactly what it wanted to hear and that the committee's conclusions could not have been more to the Government's liking.
Mr Moore: On a point of order, Mr Speaker; there is a difference between inference and what is actually written.
MR SPEAKER: Order! Mr Moore, that is not a point of order. Please proceed, Mr Duby.
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