Page 2955 - Week 13 - Thursday, 23 November 1989
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Mr Moore: I claim to have been misrepresented.
MR SPEAKER: Order! I call Mr Collaery.
ADJOURNMENT
Motion (by Mr Collaery) proposed:
That the Assembly do now adjourn.
Residents Rally Member
MR WHALAN (Deputy Chief Minister) (4.49): Mr Speaker, the debate on 5 December is going to be an interesting one because it will provide me with an opportunity to raise the matters which I have in this file and which I have had here for the last few months. They relate to a certain member who has been one of the prime movers in this. I have, in fairness, kept these matters confidential, but I think that they should be revealed to the Assembly and to the community of Canberra. The debate on 5 December will provide us with an opportunity to consider some of these issues.
Among the issues that will be raised, Mr Speaker, is a particular court case which is proceeding in relation to a bribery allegation and the question of the issue of an attempt to pervert the course of justice.
Mr Collaery: On a point of order, Mr Speaker; this has ominous overtones. It seems to be coming very close to a sub judice rule. I am certainly not the person affected by it.
Mrs Grassby: What is the point of order?
Mr Collaery: The point of order is that there is an impending breach of the sub judice rule. I ask the Deputy Chief Minister to consider very carefully what his next words are, because this is a public arena and he is speaking about a matter which he claims to be currently before the courts. I ask that he consider that very carefully. I have no idea what he is talking about, no idea.
MR WHALAN: Mr Speaker, Mr Collaery is understandably very nervous about this particular issue. The other issue, which we will have the opportunity to canvass on the occasion of 5 December, will be the issue of the false swearing of statutory declarations. Evidence will be produced in this Assembly in relation to the false swearing of statutory declarations. That evidence will clearly demonstrate the particular measures which people have gone
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