Page 537 - Week 03 - Tuesday, 20 March 1990
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Mr Moore: This is a point of order. They were the exact words of a point of order put by Mr Kaine on 2 November 1989 when the then Labor Government - - -
MR SPEAKER: There is no need to embellish the point. If you have a point of order, just make the statement in accordance with the rules as written in the standing orders.
Mr Moore: I am doing that. I am using the words of the Chief Minister, the then Leader of the Opposition.
MR SPEAKER: That is irrelevant.
Mr Moore: They were not ruled out of order then.
MR SPEAKER: Order! That was a learning curve that we all went through. We have now gone beyond that, hopefully. Some members may not have, but I appeal to you. That was leniency on my part to allow - - -
Mr Moore: Thank you, Mr Speaker. I will quote just some of his words to make my point:
... and misusing question time by making ministerial statements.
They are the words of Trevor Kaine.
MR SPEAKER: Thank you, Mr Moore.
MR COLLAERY: I decided to seek this question on the floor a few minutes ago, when Mrs Grassby asked the question of Mr Kaine to get a bit of publicity, knowing that he would properly - - -
Mrs Grassby: He dumped you in it. He would not deny it; he dumped you in it.
MR COLLAERY: He is in the Hansard, as saying that there will be no sale of government housing in that context. I went to see those elderly residents. One woman was 89 years of age and was terribly upset. I will not go into the emotional trauma that was caused by Mrs Grassby, other than to say that on return to this building I asked for the records of those premises, and I found a document, which I propose to table at the end of this response, prepared during Mrs Grassby's tenure as Minister for housing. That document was a proposal to the Housing Trust during Mrs Grassby's tenure as Minister for housing proposing a development of the site by Civil and Civic Pty Ltd. There is a response, dated 8 November 1989, and I will read it to the house, for this gross event. This letter is to an officer of the Trust. It states:
Thank you for attending the meeting with ...
the commissioner and some others. It continues:
As agreed, we are working on a proposal to provide new stock for the trust on various sites around Canberra ...
The most extraordinary discovery is that these events took place, not in my time as Minister but in the time of Mrs Grassby. I seek leave to table the following letter:
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