Page 2550 - Week 12 - Wednesday, 15 November 1989
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harmony and if given leave by the Assembly, I would be happy to withdraw my amendment to the motion to allow the Chief Minister to do that.
Leave granted.
Amendment withdrawn.
MS FOLLETT: Mr Speaker, I move:
That all words after "That" be omitted and the following words substituted: "Dr Kinloch be appointed to the Select Committee on Cultural Activities".
MR WOOD (12.19): I am going to speak obviously in support of the motion moved by the Chief Minister, though I do not want to get into any great detail of debate. Mr Moore has exercised his right to speak. I want to say something about the committee system and, in passing, to say that I am sorry that an attack on the Rally has intruded into what should be a debate about the committee system. It is fine for Mr Moore to make his comments but he might have found another time to do it.
The committee system works well; I think we would all agree with that. I have the expectation that the Committee on Cultural Activities will work well and I hope nothing and no personalities will intrude into that. I might say that we have sent out something like 140 letters to various community groups. It is a massive task we are undertaking; it is much greater than I had realised at the outset because there is so much activity across the full range of the arts in this community that we have to survey and get some opinion from.
Already committee members have increased the level of their activity in this area, in their attendance at theatres, art galleries, craft displays and the like. It is a very rewarding experience, I might say, and one that I am enjoying. I know my colleagues are doing likewise. I will welcome Dr Kinloch to this committee. I am pleased to see that this proposal has been made because he will bring to the committee a great deal of knowledge, a great breadth of experience in the arts generally and in some parts of the arts specifically. I am delighted that Mr Moore will stay on the committee because he also has skills that will be valuable to it. There is important work to do on this committee and I hope that nothing that happens in this chamber will impact on that and will inhibit anything that the committee does.
MR HUMPHRIES (12.21): Mr Speaker, I have to say that this is a quite extraordinary debate and the extent to which the Government is prepared to go to suck up to Mr Moore is unbelievable. It is precisely that kind of attitude - - -
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