Page 569 - Week 03 - Tuesday, 20 March 1990
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Mr Jensen: Send us a cheque, Michael. You owe us one.
MR MOORE: That is the way these things run.
Mr Jensen: We are still waiting for our cheque, Michael.
MR MOORE: I have replied to that. So let me once again emphasise that if the Chief Minister now faces his responsibility and announces an inquiry, he can use his power under section 11A to delay those applications. He can also ensure that the Canberra Times site, instead of going back to court as could well be the case - as Mr Collaery warns - and being delayed even further, in fact what he can do instead of that is to establish this inquiry. I urge him to do so under the ordinance that I have cited during this speech.
MR KAINE (Chief Minister) (4.33): The motion put forward for today's debate as a matter of public importance again demonstrates Mr Moore's total lack of balance when it comes to considering development issues. He goes quite overboard and loses all objectivity when it comes to planning matters and the interests of the community simply go right out of the window.
Mr Moore: That is absolute rot. I have been fighting for the interests of the community for years.
MR SPEAKER: Order!
MR KAINE: I do not want to be uncharitable, Mr Speaker, but it seems to me that - - -
Mr Moore: Now, go on, present the developers' point of view only. Let us see what balance is.
MR SPEAKER: Order!
Mr Jensen: You had your go, Michael.
Mr Moore: I did not attack.
MR KAINE: It seems to me that Mr Moore is not only lacking in objectivity but as well is totally inconsistent on this issue. I will explain that by analysing some of his recent statements on development matters in Civic, with a view to examining their consistency or lack of it.
Mr Moore: I am the one calling for an inquiry to come out with a balanced view, instead of just going ahead without it.
MR SPEAKER: Order, Mr Moore!
MR KAINE: First, following the Federal Court decision last week on the Canberra Times site, Mr Moore expressed a strong view that the Government should not take any action in
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