Page 2947 - Week 13 - Thursday, 23 November 1989
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one. On their background, I do not feel any great personal grief in a Labor Government going down and a Liberal Government coming up. That is of no particular personal pain to me. What is important to me is the way that this possible government is going to be formed.
First of all, you and the people sitting on that side of the house who are about to change to this side of the house are going to give the balance of power to Dennis Stevenson. I have a serious worry about what demands he is making now or what demands he will make to keep you in power, and I ask you, over the next 10 days, to consider that very, very closely. I think it will be a very interesting thing to watch.
But even more serious, I think, in some ways, is the fact that the Liberal Party members are now going to have to find out what it is like to work with the Residents Rally - the Residents Rally who simply do not know how to keep promises.
MR SPEAKER: Mr Moore, please speak to the motion being debated.
MR MOORE: Mr Speaker, I am certainly intending to, because what I am looking at is a situation where we are looking for the most stable form of government in the ACT. What I suggest is likely to happen is that Mr Collaery is going to be the Deputy Chief Minister. This is the same Mr Collaery who is - - -
Mr Collaery: Who was not with you on 8 May when you had your secret meeting with Mr Whalan.
MR SPEAKER: Order! What we are speaking to, Mr Moore, is that the Assembly adjourn until 5 December. That has got nothing to do with the forming of a government.
MR MOORE: Not at all, Mr Speaker, if I may disagree; the motion actually says, "except ... in the event that the Government resigns". Can I draw your attention to that part of the motion as it is that part of the motion that I am speaking to. That is in the motion, Mr Speaker.
MR SPEAKER: Certainly, yes.
MR MOORE: In that case, if the Government resigns, I am presenting what the likely alternative might be. That is what I am suggesting. At a special general meeting of the Residents Rally that I was fortunate enough to attend and at which I actually resigned my membership I heard Bernard Collaery assuring the meeting that he would have no intention of ever forming a government - -
MR SPEAKER: Order! Mr Moore, you are really not speaking to the point. Internal politics are irrelevant.
MR MOORE: Yes, I am, Mr Speaker; I am illustrating - - -
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