Page 2691 - Week 12 - Thursday, 16 November 1989
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that I would take up and follow on from Mr Jensen. While agreeing entirely with what Mr Jensen says about the rights of all people in the community to express their views, I would emphasise that by adding, "Let us be open about it. Let us be sure that we know what the views are that we are hearing".
By way of example, I want to instance the case of the Logos Foundation. Some three years ago, I think it was, my local church received some literature from that foundation. It looked fine, it read fine, it seemed above board, and it was purporting to deal with religious matters. But in the end, much further down the track, we discovered that there was a political agenda to it. Now, as I read the newspapers from Queensland, it is revealed that the Logos Foundation is a political organisation, and the religious connection is incidental.
Mr Duby: Come in, sucker.
MR WOOD: Well, I am not deeply knowledgeable about it. But let us be open about these things; let us express all views. I will express my views, and I will be open to others. I think that, as I belong to a political party, my policies are fairly well known. Where they divert from that or where they are additional to that, I am very happy to have them expressed. Therefore - - -
Mr Collaery: Who chooses your ties?
MR WOOD: That is my conservation leaning, Mr Collaery; it is my expression of support for the environment.
Therefore, if there are other views on this, let us express them. It is clear from what I see in a couple of media clippings that this view that Mr Stevenson expresses is not being expressed uniquely in Canberra. It is part of a small, a minute, perhaps a massive campaign across Australia. It is a legitimate campaign, a very clear, legitimate campaign, if the background for it is fully expressed.
So, if it is the Logos Foundation behind this or, as my colleague Mr Berry, the Minister for Health, expressed, if it is the League of Rights or an offshoot of that body, that is fine, but let us have it up front. As we like to say in this Assembly, "Let us have everything open". Let us have it up front. Mr Stevenson might indicate whether there are links across Australia for this. I am sure it would give greater validity in that case to his arguments.
Debate (on motion by Mr Kaine) adjourned.
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